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When every inch of the world is known, sleep may be the only wilderness that we have left.

Louise Erdrich

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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
Novelist
Poet
Short Story Writer
Writer
Little Falls
Minnesota
May
Every
World
Inch
Inches
Wilderness
Sleep
Known
Left

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