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When you love someone, you don't want to hurt them, even if they deserve to be hurt. When you love someone, you want to hurt them, even when they don't deserve to be hurt.

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Deserve
Hurt
Someone
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Love

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I nod, because I do understand. I'm just not sure how to go about divorcing myself from the evil I've already accepted.
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Always before, I just said no, left it solidly there. I waver now. I want to share everything with him. Want to know what he knows, feel what he feels, share the same space he's in.
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When the door to love opens, The window to control closes.
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Don't Stop ...down, ...Down there ...down where ...monsters, ...Run!
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