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You are down there alone, the stars seemed to say to him. And we are up here, in our constellations, together.
Kate DiCamillo
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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
Novelist
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
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The undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing.
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