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Before you, I believed love was making love. Waiting only makes me love you more.

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Making
Makes
Love
Believed
Waiting

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I'll Stay ...leave ...me. ...I'll ...follow ...you.
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