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

Ellen Hopkins

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
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Words have power. The power to soothe. The power to skewer someone through the heart. The power to render someone speechless.
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Red and raw like my heart, pried from your's, the two beating, no longer together, but a thousand miles between them when only yesterday they thumped in unison.
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he sucked the nectar from her heart like a famished butterfly.
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I nod, because I do understand. I'm just not sure how to go about divorcing myself from the evil I've already accepted.
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