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When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.

Louise Erdrich

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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
Novelist
Poet
Short Story Writer
Writer
Little Falls
Minnesota
Experience
Scattered
Around
Sentence
Stories
Sentences
Also
Shape
Young
Shapes
Takes
Story
Words
Assembled

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