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How could I share the way my heart was breaking when my confessor didn’t believe

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Confessor
Breaking
Share
Didn
Heart
Believe
Way

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