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Memory is a tenuous thing, like a rainbow's end or a camera with a failing lens.

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Failing
Memories
Tenuous
Ends
Lens
Thing
Lenses
Like
Rainbow
Camera
Cameras
Memory

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Once ...Why ...lie? ...when ...truth is ...the easier path
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empty and closed, hovering in some frozen netherworld neither sun nor rain could thaw.
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I am different. And I don't understand exactly how. And I don't understand just why.
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Eventually, it becomes a matter of scale. When the good outweighs the bad, you stay. When the bad is the only thing you notice anymore, you think about your future, or what's left of it, consider options.
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