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Like most hearts, it was complicated, shaded with dark and dappled with light.

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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
Dappled
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Complicated
Hearts
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Light
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