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She was disappearing a little more each day, so thin, so frail, a wisp of smoke. One day she would surely vanish altogether, and there was no way to stop her.

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Way
Altogether
Would
Thin
Surely
Smoke
Wisp
Disappear
Wisps
Stop
Disappearing
Littles
Vanish
Little
Frail

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