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And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future-you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get nice house.

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
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Long Beach
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Ellen Louise Hopkins
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Communication Was never big in my house. We sat together over dinner, but the only sound you'd hear was crunching and chewing and the little ones asking for more, please. We lived, all boxed up in invisible containers. We hardly knew the people we called sister or father. Jackie and I were the exceptions to that rule.
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Red and raw like my brain, unable to shut down, thoughts crashing like electrons orbiting a nucleus of deuling emotions.
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Girls are impossible to satisfy. Not every girl. Not me. I'd be happy if he'd just like me a little.
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He has built a pedestal for her so tall that she is afraid to be lifted atop it, because to fall would mean certain death. But oh, she would rise far, far beyond fear and be held by arms so strong, and love so pure, that falling would not be an option.
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You can turn your back but you can never really walk away.
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She's no longer afraid to die. What she's afraid of is living, accepting the status quo.
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Something stirred beneath my skin, some being inside I'd only suspected existed, demon or angel, I couldn't say.
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But then, my entire life is bullshit. The best things in it have vanished, ghosts. Ghosts I'll admit I created.
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I'll Stay ...leave ...me. ...I'll ...follow ...you.
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Falling in love with someone is the surest highway to hurt that I know. When the door to love opens, the window to control closes.
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But more importantly, you are a gift, to all who know you, whether or not they realize it. If they don't, they are blind. You have a special place in this world. All you hvae to do is find it.
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