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Something stirred beneath my skin, some being inside I'd only suspected existed, demon or angel, I couldn't say.

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Demon
Skin
Skins
Angel
Couldn
Stirred
Inside
Suspected
Something
Existed
Beneath

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