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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.

Ellen Hopkins

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

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