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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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