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That's what I'll be. A silhouette, rarely seen, and yet believed in. Kaeleigh wants to believe in me. I am her twin, forever alive inside her. And when she needs me, I am always here.

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Seen
Silhouette
Alive
Silhouettes
Forever
Twin
Needs
Twins
Believe
Rarely
Always
Believed
Inside
Wants

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But death doesn't scare me. To know exactly when I might expect it, up close and in my face, would actually be a comfort. Because to tell the truth, most of the time dying seems pretty much like my only means of escape.
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Everyone's afraid of everybody else...maybe because we're all afraid of ourselves.
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This time when we kiss, I feel it in the pit of my stomach, I feel it in my heart. And I realize love isn't about sex. It's about connection.
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empty and closed, hovering in some frozen netherworld neither sun nor rain could thaw.
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Words have power. The power to soothe. The power to skewer someone through the heart. The power to render someone speechless.
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