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Must be nice to have that kind of unshakable belief in a merciful higher power.

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Unshakable
Merciful
Higher
Nice
Belief
Power
Must
Kind

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