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I wept to think that life went on even when so much had been lost, that rain still fell and myrtle grew between the rocks.

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Even
Fell
Much
Rain
Think
Rocks
Thinking
Grew
Life
Went
Lost
Stills
Myrtle
Still
Wept

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