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Holding a tear back makes them drain upward, higher and higher, until one day your head just explodes and you're left with a stub of a neck and nothing more.

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Left
Drains
Makes
Tear
Back
Neck
Nothing
Necks
Holding
Stub
Tears
Explodes
Higher
Drain
Head
Upward

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