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The blanket was there, but it was the boy's embrace that covered and warmed him.
Jerry Spinelli
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Jerry Spinelli
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: February 1
Novelist
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Norristown
Pennsylvania
Blanket
Covered
Embrace
Boys
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