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That's what I'll be. A silhouette, rarely seen, and yet believed in.
Ellen Hopkins
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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
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Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
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Then I said it. He said it too. I love you. And everything that went before meant nothing.
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Our meeting, touching, accidentally connecting immediately, interwoven hand-in-hand, heart-to-heart.
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