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Funny thing about the monster. The worse he treats you, the more you love him.

Ellen Hopkins

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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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Funny
Thing
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Once ...Why ...lie? ...when ...truth is ...the easier path
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