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I couldnt be a writer without hope. I think I became a writer because Im pretty optimistic.

Jacqueline Woodson

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Jacqueline Woodson
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: February 12
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Columbus
Ohio
Thinking
Optimistic
Became
Writer
Pretty
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