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I have learned how to love. And it's a terrible thing. I'm broken. My heart is broken. Help me.

Kate DiCamillo

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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
Learned
Help
Helping
Heart
Thing
Love
Broken
Terrible

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