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He hunched his shoulders and tried to make himself smaller in the seat. He wanted to disappear, to fade away, not to exist.

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Lois Lowry
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: March 20
Journalist
Novelist
Photographer
Writer
Honolulu
Hawaii
Lois Ann Hammersberg
Lois James Worthy Johnson
Away
Seat
Wanted
Fades
Make
Smaller
Seats
Shoulders
Disappear
Hunched
Tried
Fade
Exist
Giver

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