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I mean, if you're gonna purposely lose your mind, you want to get it back some day. Don't you? Okay, maybe not.

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Mind
Purposely
Gonna
Okay
Lose
Loses
Maybe
Back
Mean

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