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If we are destined to be together again, be happy to know you’ll be getting the real me, not some blubbering half me.
Jerry Spinelli
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Jerry Spinelli
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: February 1
Novelist
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Norristown
Pennsylvania
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He doesn't think. He just does. A nonthinking doer.
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