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...and so many orchards circled the village that on some crisp October afternoons the whole wold smelled like pie.

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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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Crisp
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Pie
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