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Everyone's afraid of everybody else...maybe because we're all afraid of ourselves.

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Everybody
Maybe
Everyone
Else
Afraid

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