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There is something so deeply visceral about libraries for me-rooms and rooms full of people dreaming and remembering.

Jacqueline Woodson

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Jacqueline Woodson
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: February 12
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Columbus
Ohio
Reading
Libraries
Dream
Remembering
Remember
Dreaming
Something
Novelists
People
Deeply
Library
Rooms
Full
Visceral

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