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Have you ever had so much to say that your mouth closed up so tight, struggling to harness the nuclear force coalescing within your words? -346

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Nuclear
Struggle
Coalescing
Within
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Words
Tight
Force
Struggling
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Closed
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Mouth
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