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Love is worth the sum of itself, 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
Love
Worth
Nothing

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My mother's blood that would last forever after. The blood of my brother, my grandfather, my father.
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Anyway, the sort of love that will not wait is probably best to pass by
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