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With you, I am Eve. And you are my beautiful Adam. Let's run away, find our garden, live there together, happy. Naked.

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Beautiful
Together
Find
Adam
Live
Naked
Garden
Happy
Running
Away

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