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They were written on cheap blue notebooks bought by poor women. I'm interested in folk tales in the way that medicine and magic in women's stories are all kind of combined.

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Stories
Medicine
Women
Folks
Notebooks
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Blue
Notebook
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Magic
Folk
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Cheap
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Tales

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