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I loved him even now, as he took a knife to my throat, as I drowned in blood, as I whispered Cousin, you were wrong. We were born to live.

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Throat
Took
Loved
Blood
Drowned
Wrong
Whispered
Born
Knife
Live
Cousin
Even
Knives

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