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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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I know he wants to get serious. He's definitely not a player, not a poser, not a loser, not a user.
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Once ...Why ...lie? ...when ...truth is ...the easier path
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I want to open myself, let him inside. But how do I give what has already been taken?
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It is hard to believe that something that seems so permanent was once so different. Change. I guess that really is one thing you can count on.
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Love is Chocolate The unprocessed kind. Dark. Bitter. But always with the promise of sweet perfection. All it takes is sugar- that certain someone's kiss, flavored with possibility. If Dani has taught me anything, it's that life is brimming with possibilities. Every single day brings choices.
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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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Life is full of choices. We don't always make good ones. It seems to Kristina you gotta be crazy to open your windows, invite the demons in. Bree throws rocks at the feeble glass, laughs
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As the old saying goes, sometimes loving someone means letting them go.
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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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I wish I were worthy of his love. (Any love.)I should tell him to run. But I can't. I need him.
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But hey, I'm not exactly sold on the idea that love is, in fact, real. Will it find me one day, overtake me, infiltrate my life like sunlight snakes through the cold of morning? Can love thaw me? will it ever?
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Must be nice to have that kind of unshakable belief in a merciful higher power.
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You were a summer gift, one I'll always treasure. You were a dream I never wanted to wake up from. You opened my eyes to things I'll never really see. You're the best thing that will ever happen to me.
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Sad, that lives can be shattered, into so many pieces that they can never be put back together, the the relentless force of love. Irreparable.
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Have to Find ...life ...is ...a— ...gamble ...after ...all.
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I wonder how long it would take him to realize I'm right as sin - it's the rest of the world that's wrong. I'm not even sure how I qualify for admission to Aspen Springs. Does wanting to die equal losing your mind?
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