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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
Everything
Red
Peaches
Years
Invisible
Dormant
Love
Kissing
Escaped
Stones
Thread
Wait
Stone
Days
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