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Possibilities ...in the closet ...itching ...to break out ...but afraid of ...the fallout

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Afraid
Break
Fallout
Itching
Closet
Closets
Possibilities
Possibility

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