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I thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern.

Kate DiCamillo

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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
Pattern
Nowhere
Patterns
Thought
Going

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