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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
Away
Beautiful
Together
Find
Adam
Live
Naked
Garden
Happy
Running

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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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God i've missed you. I can't wait to give you your present. He kisses me hotter this time, and beneath me, through his denim and mine. I can feel the promise of his Christmas gift soon to come.
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When You Weren't Looking ...why. ...Can't you ...care ...more ...about ...me.
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