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Hearts were made for being broken. There's really no way around it if you want to be a human being.

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Broken
Around
Human
Humans
Heart
Made
Really
Way
Hearts

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