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It seems to me nothing man has done or built on this land is an improvement over what was here before.
Kent Haruf
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Kent Haruf
Age: 71 †
Born: 1943
Born: February 24
Died: 2014
Died: November 30
Novelist
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Pueblo
Colorado
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Land
Seems
Nothing
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Men
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