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“I get ideas for my books from people I know and what happens to them, from places I've been and what happens to me, and from things I read.”

E. L. Konigsburg

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But happiness is not always loud and bright and crowded. Happiness ripens like a watermelon, sweet and rosy on the inside with only a…

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