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Your hurt swallows ine, like space swallows time, and the two intertwine. We tangle together.

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Space
Two
Together
Time
Like
Intertwine
Tangle
Swallows
Hurt

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Have to Find ...life ...is ...a— ...gamble ...after ...all.
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Words have power. The power to soothe. The power to skewer someone through the heart. The power to render someone speechless.
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Too much to take in, too much to purge. Why must every memory, once sweet, dead end in such ugliness?
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Communication Was never big in my house. We sat together over dinner, but the only sound you'd hear was crunching and chewing and the little ones asking for more, please. We lived, all boxed up in invisible containers. We hardly knew the people we called sister or father. Jackie and I were the exceptions to that rule.
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empty and closed, hovering in some frozen netherworld neither sun nor rain could thaw.
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I tattered their wings and tore off their legs, joint by joint, watched them crawl in circles, like little lost infants, untill they decide to die.
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