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It is hard to believe that something that seems so permanent was once so different. Change. I guess that really is one thing you can count on.

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Different
Thing
Something
Count
Believe
Permanent
Really
Guess
Seems
Change
Hard

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