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Even trained for years as they all had been in precision of language, what words could you use which would give another the experience of sunshine?

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