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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
Intertwine
Like
Tangle
Swallows
Hurt

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