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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
Writer
Norristown
Pennsylvania
Warmed
Blanket
Covered
Embrace
Boys

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