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Sorry. But I don't need some money-grubbing preacher defining my relationship with God.

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Sorry
Relationship
Money
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Grubbing
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Preacher

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the not-so-bookish librarian was half angel, half she-devil, so sayeth the rumor mill.
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