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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
Falling
Love
Door
Window
Doors
Closes
Control
Surest
Hurt
Highway
Highways
Fall
Opens
Someone

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