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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
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
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Hot flush, raging bluch. Ice flash, instant crash.
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I'll Stay ...leave ...me. ...I'll ...follow ...you.
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