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I'm a total wreck. Afraid to let anyone near. Afraid they'll see the real me.

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Anyone
Real
Wreck
Wrecks
Near
Total
Afraid

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