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It wasn't right to have someone charge into you your world without even asking, acting as if you were nothing more than an egg to be flipped and flopped, sunny-side up or scrambled, depending on the whims on whoever ran your life..._

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Without
Eggs
Scrambled
Nothing
Whoever
Whims
Right
Asking
Flipped
Even
Side
Whim
Life
Wasn
Depending
World
Sides
Sunny
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Charge
Flopped

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