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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
Writer
Pueblo
Colorado
Nothing
Done
Men
Improvement
Built
Land
Seems

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