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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
Novelist
Writer
Norristown
Pennsylvania
Things
Turn
Life
Trouble
People
Sleep
Scarecrow
Nice
Populated
Turns
Straw
Seems
Straws
Nothing
Scary
Made
Seem

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