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When you've only got one little shimmer of sunshine, you capture it best you can.

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Best
Little
Shimmer
Capture
Sunshine
Littles

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Certain of misfire, my heart threatens to stop.
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I wanted to meet the monster. Why go down if you can go up?
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When all else fails, dream bigger.
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empty and closed, hovering in some frozen netherworld neither sun nor rain could thaw.
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