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the not-so-bookish librarian was half angel, half she-devil, so sayeth the rumor mill.

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Mills
Librarian
Rumor
Angel
Devil
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Bookish
Mill

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Only by confronting your demons can you ever hope to conquer them.
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I was about six years old, still Daddy's little girl, even though Daddy couldn't care less about me. How could I expect any man every would?
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He's solid. You're fractured. He's hopeful. You're hopeless. He's always there. You're half there. He's faithful. You're so not. He's giving. You're afraid to give. He's honest. You lie all the time. He's loving. You don't know how to love.
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I'll Stay ...leave ...me. ...I'll ...follow ...you.
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Believe it or not, I sold my first novel, Crank, with only seventy-five pages complete. It was in verse then, and it was hard-hitting then.
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Our meeting, touching, accidentally connecting immediately, interwoven hand-in-hand, heart-to-heart.
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That's what I'll be. A silhouette, rarely seen, and yet believed in.
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But, though I was very much in lust with him, I knew from the start we were nothing like forever. Maybe because forever is such a scary place.
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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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Yeah, I know getting high isn't so smart. Ask me if I care.
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Funny thing about the monster. The worse he treats you, the more you love him.
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But hey, I'm not exactly sold on the idea that love is, in fact, real. Will it find me one day, overtake me, infiltrate my life like sunlight snakes through the cold of morning? Can love thaw me? will it ever?
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Something stirred beneath my skin, some being inside I'd only suspected existed, demon or angel, I couldn't say.
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