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But then, my entire life is bullshit. The best things in it have vanished, ghosts. Ghosts I'll admit I created.

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Entire
Created
Best
Things
Vanished
Life
Ghosts
Bullshit
Admit
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