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Nobody has the time, the time cannot be owned. The time is free to everyone

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Jerry Spinelli
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: February 1
Novelist
Writer
Norristown
Pennsylvania
Owned
Nobody
Free
Everyone
Cannot
Time

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