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That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward.

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
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Childhood
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Wish
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Time

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