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I want to know what it means to be in love. But in my dictionary 'in love' is indefinable.

Ellen Hopkins

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Indefinable
Dictionary
Means
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Love

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