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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
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Anyone
Real
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Happiness is a bull's-eye, awaiting arrows of pain.
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When the door to love opens, The window to control closes.
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But hey, I'm not exactly sold on the idea that love is, in fact, real. Will it find me one day, overtake me, infiltrate my life like sunlight snakes through the cold of morning? Can love thaw me? will it ever?
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You can have your pick of pretty women. Why me? You're like the ocean, Pattyn. Pretty enough on the surface, but dive down into your depths, you'll find beauty most people never see. Lucky me. I fell in, headfirst.
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I know I can't stay here forever
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The only thing about myself I know for sure is that I don't know anything.
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He has built a pedestal for her so tall that she is afraid to be lifted atop it, because to fall would mean certain death. But oh, she would rise far, far beyond fear and be held by arms so strong, and love so pure, that falling would not be an option.
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I know he wants to get serious. He's definitely not a player, not a poser, not a loser, not a user.
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Before you, I believed love was making love. Waiting only makes me love you more.
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