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I knew what it was to yearn for a life so distant it seemed that it had never been anything more than a dream.

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Yearn
Distant
Seemed
Knew
Dream
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Life

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