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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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I hate this feeling. Like I'm here, but I'm not. Like someone cares. But they don't. Like I belong somewhere else, anywhere but here, and escape lies just past that snowy window, cool and crisp as the February air.
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I nod, because I do understand. I'm just not sure how to go about divorcing myself from the evil I've already accepted.
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you fly until you crash two days two nights no sleep, no food, come down off the monster YOU CRASH REAL HARD
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I'll Stay ...leave ...me. ...I'll ...follow ...you.
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I feel like a goddess, jailed in her Olympus. Little wonder how the gods toyed with humans. Toyed with women, to watch them squirm, pollinate the seeds of despair toyed with men, to satiate their Seven Deadly Sins.
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Possibilities ...in the closet ...itching ...to break out ...but afraid of ...the fallout
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Life is full of choices. We don't always make good ones.
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It is hard to believe that something that seems so permanent was once so different. Change. I guess that really is one thing you can count on.
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I love you so much when i see you i get butterflies
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