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Think long and hard before offering your heart to someone who can only accept it part-time

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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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Hard
Heart
Long
Time
Offering
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Accept
Thinking
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empty and closed, hovering in some frozen netherworld neither sun nor rain could thaw.
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