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Clear. Cold. Empty. Like how I feel right now. Love is strange. One minute you’re jungle fever. The next you’re Artic winter.

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Right
Minute
Feel
Winter
Feels
Empty
Love
Cold
Like
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Strange
Clear
Fever
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Jungle

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