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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
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empty and closed, hovering in some frozen netherworld neither sun nor rain could thaw.
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Funny thing about the monster. The worse he treats you, the more you love him.
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Possibilities ...in the closet ...itching ...to break out ...but afraid of ...the fallout
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Red and raw like my brain, unable to shut down, thoughts crashing like electrons orbiting a nucleus of deuling emotions.
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It's just so hard to feel good, you know? I do know. And more than that, it's just so incredibly hard to feel. (54)
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Anger is easier than forgiveness.
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Hot flush, raging bluch. Ice flash, instant crash.
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he sucked the nectar from her heart like a famished butterfly.
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