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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
Strange
Goofy
Ways
Wrap
Past
Wraps
Seems
Knocked
Wanted
Define
Way
Weird
Balance
Seem

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