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I didn’t want to be prideful anymore. I wanted to be as hard as and brittle as the stones I carted into the woods. Stones that could not feel or cry or see. I wished not to feel anything at all. In no time, what I wished for, I became.

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Became
Didn
Prideful
Anything
Brittle
Wanted
Wished
Hard
Woods
Feel
Stones
Feels
Anymore
Time
Cry

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