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I never went to Albuquerque expecting to find love. I thought it had found me there, followed me home. I never came home expecting to lose love in the space of one brief telephone call. Is it always so short-lived?

Ellen Hopkins

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Thought
Short
Home
Lose
Albuquerque
Find
Loses
Telephone
Always
Went
Telephones
Never
Came
Brief
Love
Call
Followed
Space
Expecting
Found
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