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Cleaning up after themselves was a low priority for Margo and my mother. They had both recovered from cancer scares, failed marriages, and lost hope in their opinion, dirt could wait.

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Cancer
Marriages
Wait
Priority
Opinion
Cleaning
Waiting
Dirt
Hope
Scare
Lost
Failed
Margo
Mother
Priorities
Recovered
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