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I have entered high school with the wrong hair, the wrong clothes, the wrong attitude. And I don't have anyone to sit with.

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Laurie Halse Anderson
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: October 23
Novelist
Screenwriter
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Laurie Beth Halse
Clothes
Hair
Attitude
High
Anyone
Wrong
School
Entered

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