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I stood there in the shadowed doorway thinking with my tears. Yes, tears can be thoughts, why not?

Louise Erdrich

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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
Novelist
Poet
Short Story Writer
Writer
Little Falls
Minnesota
Doorways
Stood
Tears
Thoughts
Thinking
Shadowed
Doorway

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