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We were awash in tiny attentions. Small gestures, words, empathies thought to be extinct came to life... We discovered the color of each other's eyes.

Jerry Spinelli

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Jerry Spinelli
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: February 1
Novelist
Writer
Norristown
Pennsylvania
Eyes
Extinct
Attention
Gestures
Eye
Empathy
Words
Discovered
Thought
Tiny
Life
Color
Small
Attentions
Came
Awash

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