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I am different. And I don't understand exactly how. And I don't understand just why.

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
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Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
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Different

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Possibilities ...in the closet ...itching ...to break out ...but afraid of ...the fallout
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That's what I'll be. A silhouette, rarely seen, and yet believed in.
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Do you ever dangle your toes over the precipice, dare the cliff to crumble, defy the frozen deity to suffer the sun, thaw feather and bone, take wing to fly you home?
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The wind kicks in stronger, branches clatter. Or maybe skeletons. Bones of abandonment. Ghosts that will never be.
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Perfect? How can you define a word without concrete meaning?
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Funny thing about the monster. The worse he treats you, the more you love him.
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Sad, that lives can be shattered, into so many pieces that they can never be put back together, the the relentless force of love. Irreparable.
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Ghosts don't scare me. Flesh and blood people do.
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