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I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Feel
Fairy
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Tales
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Emotional
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Truth
Rival
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