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Children have adopted a consumerist attitude - I dare you to entertain me.

Walter Dean Myers

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Walter Dean Myers
Age: 76 †
Born: 1937
Born: August 12
Died: 2014
Died: July 1
Novelist
Writer
Martinsburg
West Virginia
Walter Milton Myers
Consumerist
Entertain
Adopted
Dare
Attitude
Children

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