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Her smile put the sunflower to shame.
Jerry Spinelli
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Jerry Spinelli
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: February 1
Novelist
Writer
Norristown
Pennsylvania
Sunflower
Shame
Smile
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His smile was so wide he’d have had to break it into sections to fit it through a doorway
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