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After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right direction

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
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Let everyone see the blood,' he said. 'Don't clean it up. That's the only way people remember.'... I could see the blood inside my head. It was with me forever, whether or not I wanted to forget.
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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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Some stories stayed with you even when you wanted to forget them.
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...but now the worst crime was pretending to be something you were not.
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