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Amanda took the torn page from Maniac. To her, it was the broken wing of a bird, a pet out in the rain.Jerry Spinelli
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It was the day of the worms. That first almost-warm, after-the-rainy-night day in April, when you bolt from your house to find yourself in a world of worms. They were as numerous here in the East End as they had been in the West. The sidewalks, the streets. The very places where they didn't belong. Forlorn, marooned on concrete and asphalt, no place to burrow, April's orphans.Jerry Spinelli
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His smile was so wide he’d have had to break it into sections to fit it through a doorwayJerry Spinelli