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A snow day literally and figuratively falls from the sky, unbidden, and seems like a thing of wonder.
Susan Orlean
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Susan Orlean
Age: 68
Born: 1955
Born: October 31
Journalist
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Cleveland
Ohio
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Libraries are what is best about us as a society: open, exciting, rich, informative, free, inclusive, engaging.
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