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Is it wrong to leave relative security in favor of unknown risk at the side of someone you love?

Ellen Hopkins

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Security
Sides
Favor
Relative
Wrong
Favors
Someone
Unknown
Love
Leave
Risk
Side

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