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If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can’t be in books. The book needs you.

Gary Paulsen

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Gary Paulsen
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: May 17
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Minneapolis
Minnesota
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Gary Melvin Paulsen
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