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We all learn here by the honorable path of horrible mistakes.

Katherine Paterson

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Katherine Paterson
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: October 31
Author
Missionary
Novelist
Writer
Katherine Womeldorf Paterson
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Learn
Honorable
Horrible
Mistakes
Mistake

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