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He was reading from the beginning so that he could get to the end, where the reader was assured that the knight and the fair maiden lived together happily ever after.

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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
Ever
Fairs
Fair
Lived
Maiden
Beginning
Maidens
Reader
Knight
Reading
Knights
Ends
Happily
Together
Assured

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