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His smile was so wide he’d have had to break it into sections to fit it through a doorway
Jerry Spinelli
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Jerry Spinelli
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: February 1
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Norristown
Pennsylvania
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They don't live here. They live in Heaven.' Where's that?' I don't know,' I said. 'Enos says it's right here, on this side of the wall, but I never saw an angel over here. Kuba says it's in Russia. Olek says Washington America.' What's Washington America?' Enos says it's a place with no wall and no lice and lots of potatoes.
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