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You haven't lived until you've basked in the adoration of people.

Jerry Spinelli

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Jerry Spinelli
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: February 1
Novelist
Writer
Norristown
Pennsylvania
People
Adoration
Havens
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Lived

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Life is populated with scarecrows—all those people and things that seem so scary and trouble our sleep. Isn't it nice to know that most of them turn out to be made of nothing but straw?
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His smile was so wide he’d have had to break it into sections to fit it through a doorway
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