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So when he asked about getting high, I didn't think, I agreed. We smoked some good California green. Took three tries to put me in the place he said I should be.

Ellen Hopkins

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Place
California
Trying
Green
Good
Asked
Think
Took
Thinking
High
Smoked
Getting
Agreed
Three
Tries
Didn
Marijuana

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