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I have to tell you I love living in a world without clocks. The shackles are gone. I’m a puppy unleashed in a meadow of time. -- Stargirl

Jerry Spinelli

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Jerry Spinelli
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: February 1
Novelist
Writer
Norristown
Pennsylvania
Love
Meadows
World
Puppy
Clock
Gone
Living
Meadow
Tell
Clocks
Without
Shackles
Time
Unleashed

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