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Don't Stop ...down, ...Down there ...down where ...monsters, ...Run!

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Monsters
Stop
Running

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Just keep on shining that light. The rest will take care of itself.
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He's solid. You're fractured. He's hopeful. You're hopeless. He's always there. You're half there. He's faithful. You're so not. He's giving. You're afraid to give. He's honest. You lie all the time. He's loving. You don't know how to love.
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Always before, I just said no, left it solidly there. I waver now. I want to share everything with him. Want to know what he knows, feel what he feels, share the same space he's in.
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Do you ever dangle your toes over the precipice, dare the cliff to crumble, defy the frozen deity to suffer the sun, thaw feather and bone, take wing to fly you home?
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She is angle. I am curve. Together, we are geometric sculpture, and we make perfect sense.
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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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I'm a total wreck. Afraid to let anyone near. Afraid they'll see the real me.
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Red and raw like my brain, unable to shut down, thoughts crashing like electrons orbiting a nucleus of deuling emotions.
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You can have your pick of pretty women. Why me? You're like the ocean, Pattyn. Pretty enough on the surface, but dive down into your depths, you'll find beauty most people never see. Lucky me. I fell in, headfirst.
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That's what I'll be. A silhouette, rarely seen, and yet believed in.
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She's no longer afraid to die. What she's afraid of is living, accepting the status quo.
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Was the fun in the fall?
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