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Anger requires energy, something I don't dare waste on what cannot be altered.

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Anger
Waste
Energy
Cannot
Something
Altered
Requires
Dare

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