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Taking no chances means wasting your dreams.

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Taking
Chance
Means
Dream
Crank
Mean
Wasting
Chances
Dreams

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I wanted to meet the monster. Why go down if you can go up?
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