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What's the point of being a hero when everyone thinks you're a villain?

Ellen Hopkins

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Hero
Point
Everyone
Thinking
Life
Villain
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