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

Ellen Hopkins

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

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