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As the old saying goes, sometimes loving someone means letting them go.

Ellen Hopkins

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Goes
Saying
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Someone
Sometimes
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Letting
Loving

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