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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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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Setting
Fun
Blatantly
Feet
Purposely
Path
Crank
Fall
Treacherous
Settings
Foot
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