A baseball bat could not have hit me harder than that smile did. I was…

Jerry Spinelli
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A baseball bat could not have hit me harder than that smile did. I was sixteen years old. In that time, how many thousands of smiles had been aimed at me? so why did this one feel like the first? ✨ Jerry Spinelli (2012). The Stargirl Collection, p.54, Knopf Books for Young Readers
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A baseball bat could not have hit me harder than that smile did. I was sixteen years old. In that time, how many thousands of smiles had been aimed at me? so why did this one feel like the first? ✨ Jerry Spinelli (2012). The Stargirl Collection, p.54, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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