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Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.

Alice Hoffman

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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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Sometimes
Mean
Headed
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Running
Away

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