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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
Novelist
Writer
Norristown
Pennsylvania
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Wide
Fit
Smile
Break
Doorway
Doorways

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Each night I lie down in a graveyard of memories. Moonlight spins a shroud about me.
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Do not follow me! Let's just be fabulously where we are and who we are. You be you and I'll be me, today and today and today, and let's trust the future to tommorrow. Let the stars keep track of us. Let us ride our own orbits and trust that they will meet. May our reunion be not a finding but a sweet collision of destinies!
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Because life doesn't always happen according to a timetable or calendar. And feelings can't be scheduled.
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I became a children's author by accident.
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I seem to have a natural tendency to want to share my own observations and feelings with other people, and writing seems to be the way I'm best equipped to do that.
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She was bendable light: she shone around every corner of my day.
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She laughed when there was no joke. She danced when there was no music. She had no friends, yet she was the friendliest person in school.
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You occupied my space. But because you were not in my present, when I looked into my future I saw . . . nothing. Isn't that sad? And stupid?
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In that moonlit hour, I acquired a sense of the otherness of things. I liked the feeling the moonlight gave me, as if it wasn't the opposite of day, but its underside, its private side, when the fabulous purred on my snow-white sheet like some dark cat come in from the desert.
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I went to Gettysburg College, where the famous Civil War battle was fought. I majored in English. I would've liked to major in writing, but they didn't offer a major in that.
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Every name is real. That's the nature of names.
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