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"Looking back, she'd often say 'I've had a lucky life', and generations of children count themselves lucky too," Suzanne Murphy, president of children's literature at HarperCollins, said. "Lucky to have the very real characters Beverly Cleary created... as true friends who helped shape their growing-up years."


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