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Life was so short so many beautiful things slipped away.

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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
Life
Slipped
Short
Away
Beautiful
Many
Things

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