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No one's hurt is too small, no worry too removed, no blessing so elusive that it cannot be seen by the eyes in the back of the human heart.

Jerry Spinelli

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Jerry Spinelli
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: February 1
Novelist
Writer
Norristown
Pennsylvania
Cannot
Removed
Back
Blessing
Human
Worry
Humans
Hurt
Heart
Seen
Small
Eyes
Eye
Elusive

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