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he sucked the nectar from her heart like a famished butterfly.

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Famished
Nectar
Sucked
Butterfly
Heart
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