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Why doesn't love come with an owner's manual?

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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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Fake Is that what you are if you choose to improve the basic not perfect you?
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Certain of misfire, my heart threatens to stop.
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God i've missed you. I can't wait to give you your present. He kisses me hotter this time, and beneath me, through his denim and mine. I can feel the promise of his Christmas gift soon to come.
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