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Always keep mint on your windowsill in August, to ensure that buzzing flies will stay outside, where they belong. Don't think the summer is over, even when roses droop and turn brown and the stars shift position in the sky. Never presume August is a safe or reliable time of the year.

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Thinking
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Summer
Roses
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Flies
Windowsill
Even
Safe
Ensure
Droop
Years
Stay
Shift
Buzzing
Always
Position
Brown
Mint
Never
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Belong
Presume
Time
Stars
Sky
Reliable
Think
Year
Rose
August

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