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I wish I were worthy of his love. (Any love.)I should tell him to run. But I can't. I need him.

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
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Needs
Love
Worthy
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Running
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Must be nice to have that kind of unshakable belief in a merciful higher power.
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Only by confronting your demons can you ever hope to conquer them.
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When you've only got one little shimmer of sunshine, you capture it best you can.
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Funny thing about the monster. The worse he treats you, the more you love him.
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Ghosts don't scare me. Flesh and blood people do.
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I never went to Albuquerque expecting to find love. I thought it had found me there, followed me home. I never came home expecting to lose love in the space of one brief telephone call. Is it always so short-lived?
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God i've missed you. I can't wait to give you your present. He kisses me hotter this time, and beneath me, through his denim and mine. I can feel the promise of his Christmas gift soon to come.
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Cleansed, chlorinated to the point of chemical peel, sore muscles relieved, I felt almost human again. Tiptoe to my room, up a darkened hall, past closed doors, I wondered if I'd ever feel completely human again.
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Now that I have opened that bottle of memories they're pouring out like wine, crimson and bittersweet.
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It wasn't my first kiss, maybe it wasn't my best kiss, but it was pretty fine, and the fact that he had asked will forever make that kiss stand out in my mind, touch my heart, make me remember a kiss so tender it made me cry.
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Then I said it. He said it too. I love you. And everything that went before meant nothing.
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