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I love short stories because I believe they are the way we live. They are what our friends tell us, in their pain and joy, their passion and rage, their yearning and their cry against injustice.

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Andre Dubus
Age: 62 †
Born: 1936
Born: August 11
Died: 1999
Died: February 24
Novelist
Teacher
Writer
Lake Charles
Louisiana
Andre Jules Dubus II
Love
Passion
Friends
Insightful
Pain
Yearning
Tell
Rage
Stories
Injustice
Live
Cry
Believe
Short
Way
Joy

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