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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
Thinks

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Can a dream be wrong? Aren't dreams God's way of telling you things?
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Words have power. The power to soothe. The power to skewer someone through the heart. The power to render someone speechless.
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But death doesn't scare me. To know exactly when I might expect it, up close and in my face, would actually be a comfort. Because to tell the truth, most of the time dying seems pretty much like my only means of escape.
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I'll Stay ...leave ...me. ...I'll ...follow ...you.
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