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Maurice Sendak Quotes: I was a very sickly child. My parents were immigrants. They were not decorous. They were not discreet. They always thought I was gonna die.
         

I was a very sickly child. My parents were immigrants. They were not decorous. They were not discreet. They always thought I was gonna die.


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