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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.

Kate DiCamillo

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

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