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Ravens are the birds I'll miss most when I die. If only the darkness into which we must look were composed of the black light of their limber intelligence. If only we did not have to die at all. Instead, become ravens.

Louise Erdrich

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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
Novelist
Poet
Short Story Writer
Writer
Little Falls
Minnesota
Light
Miss
Become
Bird
Look
Intelligence
Looks
Missing
Must
Darkness
Limber
Instead
Ravens
Dies
Composed
Black
Birds

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