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THE BAD THING ABOUT FEAR Is it requires a reaction. Some hide. Some cry. But, like a dog condemned to a walled yard with no hope of escape or affection, some learn to bite.

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Dog
Bites
Hope
Reaction
Learn
Reactions
Fear
Hide
Walled
Thing
Escape
Yard
Like
Affection
Condemned
Requires
Bite
Cry
Yards

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