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Samantha (Bookwyrmsam)
The author said that he began to write and "Coraline" was a typo for "Caroline" but he saw this spelling and instantly felt that this was a person with a story, so he went with it
Peter
The author spelled Caroline wrongly, and decided to leave it like that.
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