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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
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Long Beach
California
Ellen Louise Hopkins
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