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Life is populated with scarecrows—all those people and things that seem so scary and trouble our sleep. Isn't it nice to know that most of them turn out to be made of nothing but straw?
Jerry Spinelli
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Jerry Spinelli
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: February 1
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