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The shapes arranged themselves into words, and the words spelled out a delicious and wonderful phrase: Once upon a time.

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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
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But let's not speak of what might have been. Let us speak instead of what is. You are whole.
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