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Love ambushed you, it lay in wait, dormant for days or years. It was the red thread, the peach stone, the kiss, the forgiveness. It came after you, it escaped you, it was invisible, it was everything.

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Came
Forgiveness
Ambushed
Waiting
Lays
Peach
Red
Peaches
Everything
Invisible
Dormant
Years
Kissing
Escaped
Love
Stones
Thread
Wait
Stone
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