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If I have a talent for making some fourth-grader who hates school and reading to hate it a little less, then I have to do the most with what I've been issued.

Brian P. Cleary

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Brian P. Cleary
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 1
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the United States of America
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Littles
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