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Trouble is just like love, after all it comes in unannounced and takes over before you've had a chance to reconsider, or even to think.

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Comes
Even
Love
Think
Unannounced
Thinking
Reconsider
Like
Trouble
Takes
Chance

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