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Addiction is rarely conquered alone.

Ellen Hopkins

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Alone
Conquered
Addiction
Rarely

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Communication Was never big in my house. We sat together over dinner, but the only sound you'd hear was crunching and chewing and the little ones asking for more, please. We lived, all boxed up in invisible containers. We hardly knew the people we called sister or father. Jackie and I were the exceptions to that rule.
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She is angle. I am curve. Together, we are geometric sculpture, and we make perfect sense.
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Innocence eroded into nightmare. All because of very bad touch. Love, corrupted.
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Hot flush, raging bluch. Ice flash, instant crash.
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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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Anger requires energy, something I don't dare waste on what cannot be altered.
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She's incredible, not that she's perfect. But you once said imperfections create character.
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When all choice is taken from you, life becomes a game of survival.
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Perfect? How can you define a word without concrete meaning?
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Maybe Life is random. No fate. No God. Just Time.
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Happiness is a bull's-eye, awaiting arrows of pain.
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Taking no chances means wasting your dreams.
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With you, I am Eve. And you are my beautiful Adam. Let's run away, find our garden, live there together, happy. Naked.
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I never went to Albuquerque expecting to find love. I thought it had found me there, followed me home. I never came home expecting to lose love in the space of one brief telephone call. Is it always so short-lived?
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i expected demands. he gifted me with tenderness. i expected ego. he let me experiment. i expected disrespect. he called me beautiful. i expected him to expect perfection. he taught me all i needed to know.
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I wanted to meet the monster. Why go down if you can go up?
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Funny how when your life is mostly bullshit, you turn off feeling. Sometimes it's hard to turn it back on again.
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Happiness, you see, its just an illusion of Fate, a heavenly sleight of hand designed to make you believe in fairy tales. But there's no happily ever after. You'll only find happy endings in books. Some books.
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It's probably weird to think about an addiction like it's a sentient being, but that's how it feels. Like it's something living inside you. Something you can't get rid of because killing it means killing you.
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