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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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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Nothing
Love
Meant
Went
Everything

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