“Thinking about her was the same as the hole you keep on feeling with your tongue after you lose a tooth. Time after time, my mind kept going to that empty spot, the spot where I felt like she should be.”

— Kate DiCamillo , book Because of Winn-Dixie

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American children's writer 1964

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