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This was the ghetto: where children grow down instead of up.

Jerry Spinelli

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Jerry Spinelli
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: February 1
Novelist
Writer
Norristown
Pennsylvania
Children
Ghetto
Instead
Grow
Grows

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