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Funny how when your life is mostly bullshit, you turn off feeling. Sometimes it's hard to turn it back on again.
Ellen Hopkins
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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
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Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Life
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Feeling
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