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

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