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I wanted to meet the monster. Why go down if you can go up?

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Monster
Monsters
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empty and closed, hovering in some frozen netherworld neither sun nor rain could thaw.
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Don't Stop ...down, ...Down there ...down where ...monsters, ...Run!
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