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We passed over in a sweep of sorrow that would persist into our small forever. We just keep going.

Louise Erdrich

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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
Novelist
Poet
Short Story Writer
Writer
Little Falls
Minnesota
Persist
Passed
Sorrow
Small
Forever
Keep
Going
Would
Sweep

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