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...now he saw the familiar wide river beside the path differently. He saw all of the light and color and history it contained and carried in its slow - moving water and he knew that there was an Elsewhere from which it came, and an Elsewhere to which it was going

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Lois Lowry
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: March 20
Journalist
Novelist
Photographer
Writer
Honolulu
Hawaii
Lois Ann Hammersberg
Lois James Worthy Johnson
Knew
Differently
Path
River
Came
Slow
Water
Familiar
Moving
Rivers
Contained
History
Wide
Beside
Light
Saws
Elsewhere
Going
Color
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