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Each night I lie down in a graveyard of memories. Moonlight spins a shroud about me.

Jerry Spinelli

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Jerry Spinelli
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: February 1
Novelist
Writer
Norristown
Pennsylvania
Spins
Shrouds
Graveyard
Moonlight
Memories
Lying
Night
Shroud

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