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There ain't no point in making soup unless others eat it. Soup needs another mouth to taste it, another heart to be warmed by it.

Kate DiCamillo

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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
Making
Others
Warmed
Another
Soup
Needs
Mouth
Heart
Mouths
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Unless
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