A Quote by Jandy Nelson

[Lennie meets Joe - he works out that she was named after John Lennon] I nod. "Mom was a hippie." This is northern Northern California after all - the final frontier of freakerdom. Just in the eleventh grade we have a girl named Electricity, a guy named Magic Bus, and countless flowers: Tulip, Begonia, and Poppy - all parent-given-on-the-birth-certificate names. Tulip is a two-ton bruiser of a guy who would be the star of out football team if we were the kind of school that has optional morning meditation in the gym

Jandy Nelson

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Jandy Nelson
American - Writer
Born: June 24, 1965

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Lauren Groff

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Steven Drozd

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Jim Gaffigan

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Walt Mossberg

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Sidharth Malhotra

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Darynda Jones

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Brent Spiner

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Henry Bromell

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Ron Clements

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M.I.A.

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Brooklyn Decker

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