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All of that loneliness and longing in my heart got transferred into the book Because of Winn-Dixie, I guess.

Kate DiCamillo

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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
Transferred
Longing
Loneliness
Guess
Book
Heart
Dixie

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