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She's incredible, not that she's perfect. But you once said imperfections create character.

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Imperfections
Imperfection
Incredible
Create
Perfect
Character

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Perfect? How can you define a word without concrete meaning?
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Once ...Why ...lie? ...when ...truth is ...the easier path
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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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