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For a contributing citizen to be released from the community was a final decision, a terrible punishment, an overwhelming statement of failure.

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