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Death Is only the easy way out if you are the one who dies.

Ellen Hopkins

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Dies
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you fly until you crash two days two nights no sleep, no food, come down off the monster YOU CRASH REAL HARD
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Red and raw like my brain, unable to shut down, thoughts crashing like electrons orbiting a nucleus of deuling emotions.
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