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Girls are impossible to satisfy. Not every girl. Not me. I'd be happy if he'd just like me a little.

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Every
Like
Satisfy
Girls
Impossible
Happy
Girl
Littles
Little

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