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Reader, you must know that an interesting fate (sometimes involving rats, sometimes not) awaits almost everyone, mouse or man, who does not conform.

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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
Awaits
Almost
Mouse
Interesting
Everyone
Involving
Doe
Rats
Sometimes
Mice
Must
Conform
Men
Fate
Reader

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