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The trouble with miracles is, they don't last long.

Jerry Spinelli

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Jerry Spinelli
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: February 1
Novelist
Writer
Norristown
Pennsylvania
Miracle
Trouble
Lasts
Last
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Miracles

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