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I can hurt myself more than anyone else can, she told her sister. I can do it with my eyes closed.

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Eyes
Anyone
Eye
Else
Closed
Sister
Told
Hurt

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