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Love without trust is nothing more than infatuation.

Ellen Hopkins

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Infatuation
Trust
Without
Nothing
Love

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