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It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.

Alice Hoffman

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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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Great
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