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When the door to love opens, The window to control closes.

Ellen Hopkins

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Closes
Opens
Door
Window
Doors
Control
Love

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One foot in front of the other, counting tiles on the floor so I don't have to focus the blur of painted smiles, fake faces.
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That's what I'll be. A silhouette, rarely seen, and yet believed in.
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But, though I was very much in lust with him, I knew from the start we were nothing like forever. Maybe because forever is such a scary place.
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But then, my entire life is bullshit. The best things in it have vanished, ghosts. Ghosts I'll admit I created.
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Don't Stop ...down, ...Down there ...down where ...monsters, ...Run!
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