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

Ellen Hopkins

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

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When You Weren't Looking ...why. ...Can't you ...care ...more ...about ...me.
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So when he asked about getting high, I didn't think, I agreed. We smoked some good California green. Took three tries to put me in the place he said I should be.
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Have to Find ...life ...is ...a— ...gamble ...after ...all.
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Detailed descriptions, abstract ambitions, relevant observations, your's and mine.
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One foot in front of the other, counting tiles on the floor so I don't have to focus the blur of painted smiles, fake faces.
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