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The movie is more real in so many ways than the life I am leading. No, that’s not true. I just desperately wish this was only a movie.

Walter Dean Myers

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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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