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A boy who is trouble is something entirely different as a man.

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Men
Entirely
Boys
Trouble
Different
Something

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