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Certain of misfire, my heart threatens to stop.

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Threatens
Stop
Certain
Heart

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Death Is only the easy way out if you are the one who dies.
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Love without trust is nothing more than infatuation.
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Once ...Why ...lie? ...when ...truth is ...the easier path
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With you, I am Eve. And you are my beautiful Adam. Let's run away, find our garden, live there together, happy. Naked.
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