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You eat canned tuna fish and you absorb protein. Then, if you're lucky, someone give you Dover Sole and you experience nourishment. It's the same with books.

Lois Lowry

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Lois Lowry
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: March 20
Journalist
Novelist
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Writer
Honolulu
Hawaii
Lois Ann Hammersberg
Lois James Worthy Johnson
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