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As a kid books changed how I looked at the world and helped me understand things. Books still deepen me and open my heart.

Kate DiCamillo

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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
Understand
Kids
Stills
Deepen
Still
Helped
Book
Looked
Changed
Heart
Open
Things
Books
World

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