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I nod, because I do understand. I'm just not sure how to go about divorcing myself from the evil I've already accepted.

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Divorcing
Accepted
Already
Sure
Evil
Understand

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