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In a world of sorrow, love was an act of will. All you needed were the right ingredients.

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Ingredients
Sorrow
Needed
Right
Love
World

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