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This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Humans
Things
Time
Meant
Moved
Changed
Human

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