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But, though I was very much in lust with him, I knew from the start we were nothing like forever. Maybe because forever is such a scary place.

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Much
Scary
Love
Knew
Like
Maybe
Forever
Start
Though
Place
Nothing
Lust

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