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He'd thought he was lost, but now he recognized that eternity was around him, like salt from a shaker or stars in the sky.

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Eternity
Stars
Lost
Around
Shaker
Thought
Shakers
Like
Recognized
Salt
Sky

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