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May God strike me down with a hammer on the head before I write a book with a teach-y goal!

Kate DiCamillo

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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
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Teach
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Write
May
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