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Yeah, I know getting high isn't so smart. Ask me if I care.

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
High
Getting
Care
Yeah
Smart
Asks

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Detailed descriptions, abstract ambitions, relevant observations, your's and mine.
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Have to Find ...life ...is ...a— ...gamble ...after ...all.
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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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Alone everything changes. Some might call it distorted reality but it's exactly the place I need to be.
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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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But hey, I'm not exactly sold on the idea that love is, in fact, real. Will it find me one day, overtake me, infiltrate my life like sunlight snakes through the cold of morning? Can love thaw me? will it ever?
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The universe is a big place. If I was lost up there, how would you ever find me
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Why are people so afraid of giving their kids necessary information that might prevent an unwanted pregnancy or disease? But they're not worried about the violent nature of video games or movies or books.
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He's solid. You're fractured. He's hopeful. You're hopeless. He's always there. You're half there. He's faithful. You're so not. He's giving. You're afraid to give. He's honest. You lie all the time. He's loving. You don't know how to love.
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Falling in love with someone is the surest highway to hurt that I know. When the door to love opens, the window to control closes.
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With you, I am Eve. And you are my beautiful Adam. Let's run away, find our garden, live there together, happy. Naked.
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Too much to take in, too much to purge. Why must every memory, once sweet, dead end in such ugliness?
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The Screaming flashed me back to a time when mom and dad were still together if you could call miles apart together.
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Some secrets can't be kept too long. No matter how hard you try to hide them, sooner or later they scurry out from your cupboards, cockroaches on the run.
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Eventually, it becomes a matter of scale. When the good outweighs the bad, you stay. When the bad is the only thing you notice anymore, you think about your future, or what's left of it, consider options.
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The wind kicks in stronger, branches clatter. Or maybe skeletons. Bones of abandonment. Ghosts that will never be.
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Innocence eroded into nightmare. All because of very bad touch. Love, corrupted.
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Many readers share their stories with me and if one speaks to me (or if the same theme keeps coming at me), I will research it and decide if it would make a good book. But, straight down to it, people inspire me.
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Every high has an equal, measurable low.
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Anger requires energy, something I don't dare waste on what cannot be altered.
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