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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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I tattered their wings and tore off their legs, joint by joint, watched them crawl in circles, like little lost infants, untill they decide to die.
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Then I said it. He said it too. I love you. And everything that went before meant nothing.
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I'd like to cry now. Don't know how.
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Sad, that lives can be shattered, into so many pieces that they can never be put back together, the the relentless force of love. Irreparable.
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That's what I'll be. A silhouette, rarely seen, and yet believed in.
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I love you so much when i see you i get butterflies
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My happiest memories have no place in the past they are those I have yet to create.
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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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It's just so hard to feel good, you know?
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i expected demands. he gifted me with tenderness. i expected ego. he let me experiment. i expected disrespect. he called me beautiful. i expected him to expect perfection. he taught me all i needed to know.
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Love without trust is nothing more than infatuation.
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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?
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Maybe Life is random. No fate. No God. Just Time.
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THE BAD THING ABOUT FEAR Is it requires a reaction. Some hide. Some cry. But, like a dog condemned to a walled yard with no hope of escape or affection, some learn to bite.
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They think old people are lame. But they're not. They're awesome, & I know exactly why I think so. It's because they've lived entire lifetimes. Loved. Laughed. Surrendered. Stumbled. Weathered, beaten, still they don't crumble, not even as they inch toward death.
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Afraid to Die Loveless Because I think if you die without knowing love in this life, that's how you'll spend eternity. Alone. Frozen.
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