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I watch some kids ask the cafeteria ladies to sign their books. What do they write: Hope your chicken patties never bleed? Or, maybe, May your Jell-O always wiggle?

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Laurie Halse Anderson
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: October 23
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Laurie Beth Halse
Writing
Maybe
Cafeteria
Always
Books
Bleed
Never
Asks
Chicken
Hope
Ladies
Write
Chickens
Kids
Sign
May
Watches
Jell
Book
Watch
Wiggle

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