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You can turn your back but you can never really walk away.

Ellen Hopkins

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Never
Walk
Walks
Turn
Turns
Away
Back
Really

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empty and closed, hovering in some frozen netherworld neither sun nor rain could thaw.
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