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She's no longer afraid to die. What she's afraid of is living, accepting the status quo.

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Afraid
Accepting
Longer
Dies
Living
Status

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