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

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Funny
Thing
Love
Monster
Monsters
Treats
Worse

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He's solid. You're fractured. He's hopeful. You're hopeless. He's always there. You're half there. He's faithful. You're so not. He's giving. You're afraid to give. He's honest. You lie all the time. He's loving. You don't know how to love.
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I'll Stay ...leave ...me. ...I'll ...follow ...you.
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You can turn your back but you can never really walk away.
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Too much to take in, too much to purge. Why must every memory, once sweet, dead end in such ugliness?
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