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You have to see the miracles for there to be miracles.
Jandy Nelson
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Jandy Nelson
Age: 58
Born: 1965
Born: November 25
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New York City
New York
Miracles
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... every available inch of his face busts into a smile - whoa. Has he blown into our school on a gust of wind from another world? The guy looks unabashedly jack-o'-lantern happy, which couldn't be more foreign to the sullen demeanor most of us strove to perfect.
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But then I think about my sister and what a shell-less turtle she was and how she wanted me to be one too. C'mon, Lennie, she used to say to me at least ten times a day. C'mon Len. And that makes me feel better, like it's her life rather than her death that is now teaching me how to be, who to be.
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Our tongues have fallen madly in love and gotten married and moved to Paris.
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