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You gotta be crazy to open your windows, invite the demons in.

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Open
Demons
Invite
Windows
Invites
Demon
Gotta
Window
Crazy

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