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Going out and not only meeting the kids, but meeting the teachers and the librarians and seeing the world, fills me up.
Kate DiCamillo
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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
Novelist
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
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Once upon a time, he said out loud to the darkness. He said these words because they were the best, the most powerful words that he knew and just the saying of them comforted him.
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[He] had the soul of a poet, and because of this, he liked very much to consider questions that had no answers.
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