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

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