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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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And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future-you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get nice house.
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Sometimes I'm not so sure just who I am either.
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And almost instantly, Daddy made everything seem just fine. Even when it wasn't.
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Alone everything changes. Some might call it distorted reality but it's exactly the place I need to be.
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He has built a pedestal for her so tall that she is afraid to be lifted atop it, because to fall would mean certain death. But oh, she would rise far, far beyond fear and be held by arms so strong, and love so pure, that falling would not be an option.
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I never went to Albuquerque expecting to find love. I thought it had found me there, followed me home. I never came home expecting to lose love in the space of one brief telephone call. Is it always so short-lived?
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She's no longer afraid to die. What she's afraid of is living, accepting the status quo.
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Fake Is that what you are if you choose to improve the basic not perfect you?
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One foot in front of the other, counting tiles on the floor so I don't have to focus the blur of painted smiles, fake faces.
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Possibilities ...in the closet ...itching ...to break out ...but afraid of ...the fallout
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That's what I'll be. A silhouette, rarely seen, and yet believed in. Kaeleigh wants to believe in me. I am her twin, forever alive inside her. And when she needs me, I am always here.
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Whatever has happened in someone's past, the future is theirs to shape. The first step is to find a way out.
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Some secrets can't be kept too long. No matter how hard you try to hide them, sooner or later they scurry out from your cupboards, cockroaches on the run.
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he sucked the nectar from her heart like a famished butterfly.
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