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We wanted to define her, to wrap her up as we did each other, but we could not seem to get past weird and strange and goofy. Her ways knocked us off balance.

Jerry Spinelli

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Jerry Spinelli
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: February 1
Novelist
Writer
Norristown
Pennsylvania
Define
Wanted
Weird
Way
Balance
Seem
Strange
Goofy
Wrap
Ways
Wraps
Past
Knocked
Seems

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