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Happiness, you see, its just an illusion of Fate, a heavenly sleight of hand designed to make you believe in fairy tales. But there's no happily ever after. You'll only find happy endings in books. Some books.

Ellen Hopkins

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Hands
Fairy
Find
Tales
Ever
Illusion
Book
Fate
Sleight
Believe
Hand
Endings
Make
Books
Happily
Happiness
Designed
Happy
Heavenly

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