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You can have your pick of pretty women. Why me? You're like the ocean, Pattyn. Pretty enough on the surface, but dive down into your depths, you'll find beauty most people never see. Lucky me. I fell in, headfirst.

Ellen Hopkins

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Beauty
Fell
Women
Pick
Find
Depth
Enough
Picks
Never
Surface
Like
Ocean
Headfirst
People
Lucky
Dive
Pretty
Depths

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