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Taking no chances means wasting your dreams.

Ellen Hopkins

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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
Mean
Crank
Wasting
Chances
Dreams

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The first time I kissed you. One kiss, and I was totally hooked. Addicted to you. I could never love anyone the way I love you. I'd follow you across the universe.
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And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future-you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get nice house.
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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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