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That's the way love sounds, my mother told me. You think it should feel like honey, but instead it cuts like a knife.

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Feels
Honey
Way
Sounds
Love
Cutting
Think
Instead
Thinking
Told
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Knife
Mother
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