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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..._

Alice Hoffman

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

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