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I never even believed in happiness. I didn't think it existed. Now look at me. I'm ready to believe in just about anything.

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Never
Ready
Think
Happiness
Thinking
Didn
Anything
Look
Looks
Even
Existed
Believe
Believed

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