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When small towns find they cannot harm the strangest of their members, when eccentrics show resilience, they are eventually embraced and even cherished.
Louise Erdrich
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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
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Little Falls
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The length of sky is just about the size of my ignorance. Pure and wide.
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I stood there in the shadowed doorway thinking with my tears. Yes, tears can be thoughts, why not?
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If life's a joke, then suicide's a bad punch line.
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I think she is confused by the way I want her, which is like nobody else. I know this deep down. I want her in a new way, a way she's never been told about.
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I don't pray. When I was young, I vowed I never would be caught begging God. If I want something I get it for myself. I go to church only to show the old hens they don't get me down.
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