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I need to capture my sprite with trembling hands. Except I could crush her. Wonder how many small things of beauty - flowers, seashells, dragonflies - have met such a demise. Wonder how much fragile love has collapsed beneath the weight of confession.

Ellen Hopkins

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Beauty
Capture
Dragonflies
Hands
Flowers
Collapsed
Need
Mets
Demise
Many
Weight
Trembling
Needs
Except
Confession
Much
Flower
Fragile
Things
Wonder
Beneath
Love
Small
Crush
Sprite

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