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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
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Exactly
Understand
Different

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