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the not-so-bookish librarian was half angel, half she-devil, so sayeth the rumor mill.
Ellen Hopkins
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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
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Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
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The only thing about myself I know for sure is that I don't know anything.
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Don't make me laugh, I'd much rather cry.
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empty and closed, hovering in some frozen netherworld neither sun nor rain could thaw.
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Red and raw like my heart, pried from your's, the two beating, no longer together, but a thousand miles between them when only yesterday they thumped in unison.
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I don't love him, & he definitely doesn't love me. Still, he semi-fills a gaping black hole inside me. That place wants love, maybe even needs love, but love is something Im pretty sure doesn't exist.
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Too much to take in, too much to purge. Why must every memory, once sweet, dead end in such ugliness?
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They think old people are lame. But they're not. They're awesome, & I know exactly why I think so. It's because they've lived entire lifetimes. Loved. Laughed. Surrendered. Stumbled. Weathered, beaten, still they don't crumble, not even as they inch toward death.
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With you, I am Eve. And you are my beautiful Adam. Let's run away, find our garden, live there together, happy. Naked.
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Detailed descriptions, abstract ambitions, relevant observations, your's and mine.
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Ghosts don't scare me. Flesh and blood people do.
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It wasn't my first kiss, maybe it wasn't my best kiss, but it was pretty fine, and the fact that he had asked will forever make that kiss stand out in my mind, touch my heart, make me remember a kiss so tender it made me cry.
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Innocence eroded into nightmare. All because of very bad touch. Love, corrupted.
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Christmas is far and away my favorite holiday. I love everything about it, from the event that inspired it, hoping for a white one, to wrapping presents. But mostly I love having family and friends gathered, and sharing traditions.
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One foot in front of the other, counting tiles on the floor so I don't have to focus the blur of painted smiles, fake faces.
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How can I explain purposely setting foot on a path so blatantly treacherous? Was the fun in the fall?
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Death Is only the easy way out if you are the one who dies.
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he sucked the nectar from her heart like a famished butterfly.
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