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Sometimes words drew blood, they cut your tongue, they made you know things you couldn't unknow.

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
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Cutting
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Sometimes
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