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Sometimes I'm not so sure just who I am either.

Ellen Hopkins

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Sometimes
Either
Sure

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empty and closed, hovering in some frozen netherworld neither sun nor rain could thaw.
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