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Falling in love with someone is the surest highway to hurt that I know. When the door to love opens, the window to control closes.

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Hurt
Highway
Fall
Highways
Someone
Opens
Love
Falling
Door
Window
Doors
Closes
Control
Surest

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