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Innocence eroded into nightmare. All because of very bad touch. Love, corrupted.

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Innocence
Touch
Love
Eroded
Corrupted
Nightmare

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