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Because that's what you do, you stand up for your best friend. And you eat lunch with him and talk with him and share secrets and laugh a lot and go places and do stuff, and when you wake up in the morning, he's the first person you think of.

Jerry Spinelli

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Jerry Spinelli
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: February 1
Novelist
Writer
Norristown
Pennsylvania
Best
Friend
Person
Stand
Firsts
Share
Secrets
First
Morning
Lunch
Think
Secret
Wake
Thinking
Talk
Laugh
Stuff
Places
Persons
Laughing

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