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It's just so hard to feel good, you know? I do know. And more than that, it's just so incredibly hard to feel. (54)

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Good
Incredibly
Hard
Feel
Feels

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