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'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother stupid, inane father.

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Maurice Sendak
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: June 10
Died: 2012
Died: May 8
Artist
Cartoonist
Graphic Designer
Illustrator
Painter
Screenwriter
Writer
Brooklyn
New York
Maurice Bernard Sendak
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Hansel
Ever
Inane
Scariest
Psychotic
Stupid
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Mother
Gretel

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