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Can you stop your mother from singing to you? Who would do such a thing?

Louise Erdrich

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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
Novelist
Poet
Short Story Writer
Writer
Little Falls
Minnesota
Singing
Stop
Mother
Thing
Would

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