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Red and raw like my brain, unable to shut down, thoughts crashing like electrons orbiting a nucleus of deuling emotions.

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Like
Electrons
Unable
Shut
Red
Emotions
Thoughts
Orbiting
Emotion
Crashing
Brain
Nucleus

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