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I was a sidelines child: never class president, never team captain, never the one with the most valentines in my box.

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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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