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Each new friendship can make you a new person, because it opens up new doors inside of you.

Kate DiCamillo

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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
Make
Opens
Friendship
Doors
Inside
Persons
Person

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