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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?

Ellen Hopkins

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

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