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Now that I have opened that bottle of memories they're pouring out like wine, crimson and bittersweet.

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Wine
Memories
Moments
Bittersweet
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Crimson
Pouring
Bottle
Bottles
Opened

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Red and raw like my brain, unable to shut down, thoughts crashing like electrons orbiting a nucleus of deuling emotions.
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Smile. Nod. Say something witty before he finds out what an incredible geek you are.
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empty and closed, hovering in some frozen netherworld neither sun nor rain could thaw.
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