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We long to be found, hoping our searchers have not given up and gone home.

Jerry Spinelli

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Jerry Spinelli
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: February 1
Novelist
Writer
Norristown
Pennsylvania
Home
Long
Searchers
Hoping
Gone
Given
Found

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