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I don't love him, & he definitely doesn't love me. Still, he semi-fills a gaping black hole inside me. That place wants love, maybe even needs love, but love is something Im pretty sure doesn't exist.

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Something
Sure
Hole
Love
Black
Holes
Doesn
Definitely
Place
Exist
Stills
Inside
Still
Wants
Gaping
Needs
Pretty
Semi
Even
Maybe
Fills

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Fake Is that what you are if you choose to improve the basic not perfect you?
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When You Weren't Looking ...why. ...Can't you ...care ...more ...about ...me.
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It wasn't my first kiss, maybe it wasn't my best kiss, but it was pretty fine, and the fact that he had asked will forever make that kiss stand out in my mind, touch my heart, make me remember a kiss so tender it made me cry.
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Don't make me laugh, I'd much rather cry.
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Anger requires energy, something I don't dare waste on what cannot be altered.
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