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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
Constellations
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Love!' said the princess. She stamped her foot. 'Why must everyone always speak of love?
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All of God's creatures have names, every last one of them. Of that I am sure: of that I have no doubt at all.
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Once upon a time, he said out loud to the darkness. He said these words because they were the best, the most powerful words that he knew and just the saying of them comforted him.
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