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But now, like a fallen sparrow On a golden chain, I'm forever bound in shadow, A prisoner to my pain.

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Walter Dean Myers
Age: 76 †
Born: 1937
Born: August 12
Died: 2014
Died: July 1
Novelist
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Martinsburg
West Virginia
Walter Milton Myers
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