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Even without them touching me, I feel dirty about what I do. Alex does even filthier things but says it all washes off with soap. I don’t believe that. I think it all leaves stains. Indelible stains.

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Even
Touching
Believe
Dirty
Things
Leaves
Think
Says
Washes
Thinking
Doe
Indelible
Without
Stains
Feel
Alex
Feels
Soap

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