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Here is the riddle of love: Everything it gives to you, it takes away.

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Gives
Takes
Away
Everything
Giving
Love
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