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I was about six years old, still Daddy's little girl, even though Daddy couldn't care less about me. How could I expect any man every would?

Ellen Hopkins

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
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Littles
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Daddy

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