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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
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She's no longer afraid to die. What she's afraid of is living, accepting the status quo.
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Smile. Nod. Say something witty before he finds out what an incredible geek you are.
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God wasn't love, couldn't be love. Because for me, love was a corpse.
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