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

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

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Life is full of choices. We don't always make good ones.
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Sometimes I'm not so sure just who I am either.
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I tattered their wings and tore off their legs, joint by joint, watched them crawl in circles, like little lost infants, untill they decide to die.
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Innocence eroded into nightmare. All because of very bad touch. Love, corrupted.
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Love is Chocolate The unprocessed kind. Dark. Bitter. But always with the promise of sweet perfection. All it takes is sugar- that certain someone's kiss, flavored with possibility. If Dani has taught me anything, it's that life is brimming with possibilities. Every single day brings choices.
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I really have to wonder who or what made Daddy become this way. Babies aren't born cruel or filled with sick desire. Evil is not intrinsic. It's fashioned.
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The only thing about myself I know for sure is that I don't know anything.
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Red and raw like my brain, unable to shut down, thoughts crashing like electrons orbiting a nucleus of deuling emotions.
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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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Every high has an equal, measurable low.
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the not-so-bookish librarian was half angel, half she-devil, so sayeth the rumor mill.
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