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No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
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He stepped off the pavement like a man jumping off a bridge, as calm as a swimmer with an ocean out below. Lucy had known what he was going to do the instant their eyes met. She'd know what he intended because she would have done the very same thing if she'd had his courage. Nothing was going to break his fall.
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