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I know I can't stay here forever

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
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empty and closed, hovering in some frozen netherworld neither sun nor rain could thaw.
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he sucked the nectar from her heart like a famished butterfly.
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