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We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.

Louise Erdrich

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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
Novelist
Poet
Short Story Writer
Writer
Little Falls
Minnesota
Heart
Task
Trying
Tasks
Really
Gets
Life
Wise
Though
Understand
Another
Enough

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