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Eventually, it becomes a matter of scale. When the good outweighs the bad, you stay. When the bad is the only thing you notice anymore, you think about your future, or what's left of it, consider options.

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Thing
Eventually
Good
Anymore
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Consider
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Stay
Outweighs
Life
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Options
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empty and closed, hovering in some frozen netherworld neither sun nor rain could thaw.
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