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Happiness is a bull's-eye, awaiting arrows of pain.

Ellen Hopkins

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Eye
Pain
Awaiting
Bull
Bulls
Arrows
Happiness

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And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future-you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get nice house.
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