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I really have to wonder who or what made Daddy become this way. Babies aren't born cruel or filled with sick desire. Evil is not intrinsic. It's fashioned.

Ellen Hopkins

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Wonder
Fashioned
Evil
Daddy
Desire
Babies
Born
Cruel
Become
Filled
Made
Sick
Really
Aren
Way
Baby
Intrinsic

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