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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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