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Do you ever dangle your toes over the precipice, dare the cliff to crumble, defy the frozen deity to suffer the sun, thaw feather and bone, take wing to fly you home?

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Sun
Feathers
Feather
Suffering
Toes
Precipice
Home
Wing
Defy
Ever
Frozen
Cliff
Take
Bones
Deity
Suffer
Deities
Dangle
Dare
Cliffs
Thaw
Wings
Bone
Crumble

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