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Freedom, I found is not only in the running but in the heart, the mind, the hands.

Louise Erdrich

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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
Novelist
Poet
Short Story Writer
Writer
Little Falls
Minnesota
Found
Hands
Heart
Mind
Freedom
Running

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