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God wasn't love, couldn't be love. Because for me, love was a corpse.

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Corpse
Corpses
Couldn
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