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Certain things need not be said, and there’s nothing, not a whisper, prayer, not a sacrifice, not a payment of any price, that would change what’s about to happen.

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Certain
Change
Whisper
Nothing
Payment
Need
Price
Needs
Sacrifice
Things
Happen
Would
Prayer
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