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Some secrets can't be kept too long. No matter how hard you try to hide them, sooner or later they scurry out from your cupboards, cockroaches on the run.

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Ellen Hopkins
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 26
Novelist
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Kept
Later
Secret
Scurry
Running
Cupboards
Matter
Cockroaches
Hard
Sooner
Trying
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