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I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Years
Anyway
Like
Putting
World
Poetry
Fiction
Write
Together
Best
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Worlds

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Yesterday influences today, thus creates tomorrow.
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Have to Find ...life ...is ...a— ...gamble ...after ...all.
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Hot flush, raging bluch. Ice flash, instant crash.
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