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I am just always, always paying attention - waiting for the words, or image, or name that will be the beginning of a story.

Kate DiCamillo

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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
Always
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Words
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