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I make it through the first two weeks of school without a nuclear meltdown.

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Laurie Halse Anderson
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: October 23
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Laurie Beth Halse
Week
Two
School
Firsts
Without
Meltdown
First
Meltdowns
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Weeks
Nuclear

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