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The Screaming flashed me back to a time when mom and dad were still together if you could call miles apart together.

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Mom
Call
Stills
Together
Flashed
Still
Screaming
Back
Apart
Time
Miles
Dad

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