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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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