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Sally...can no longer think of love as a reality, or even as a possibility, however remote.

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
However
Possibility
Longer
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Love
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Sally
Thinking
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