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I always quit at three when my kids come home from school so I feel pretty spoiled

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
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Quitting
Always
Pretty
Three
Kids
School
Home
Come
Spoiled
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Quit

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I didn’t want to be prideful anymore. I wanted to be as hard as and brittle as the stones I carted into the woods. Stones that could not feel or cry or see. I wished not to feel anything at all. In no time, what I wished for, I became.
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The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.
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Being human means losing everything we love best in the world, she murmured as she released me. But would you ask to be anything else?
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