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When bad things turn good, the reason can usually be found in the human heart—sometimes in the hearts of great masses of people, sometimes in the heart of a solitary soul.

Jerry Spinelli

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Jerry Spinelli
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: February 1
Novelist
Writer
Norristown
Pennsylvania
Heart
Turns
Good
Found
Things
Soul
Masses
People
Reason
Solitary
Human
Hearts
Humans
Mass
Sometimes
Usually
Great
Turn

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