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I have nothing from my childhood. I think you carry those books with you. It's like in [Ray] Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. Books are outlawed in this future society so people become the book they love by memorizing it.

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
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