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i want to hear what's happened to you, she said evenly after a while. she gestured in the direction, down river, of the butcher shop. it's just that there is nowhere else to start, she said gently. niether of us is the same. but i'm different because of small, good, manageable things. you're different because ... things i don't know.

Louise Erdrich

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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
Novelist
Poet
Short Story Writer
Writer
Little Falls
Minnesota
Hear
Manageable
Small
Gently
Happened
Shop
Start
Shops
Else
Nowhere
Gestured
Different
River
Evenly
Good
Direction
Butcher
Things
Rivers
Butchers

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