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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
Doorway
Doorways
Sections
Wide
Fit
Smile
Break

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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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Letter from Mr. B: Why does a back scratch feel better coming from somebody else than if you do it yourself?
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So, he said, we ourselves will be the candle flames. He put his hands on his chest. Feel your hearts, how warm they are.
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