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Women don't realize how much store men set on the regularity of their habits. We absorb their comings and goings into our bodies, their rhythms into our bones.

Louise Erdrich

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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
Novelist
Poet
Short Story Writer
Writer
Little Falls
Minnesota
Much
Bodies
Comings
Men
Rhythm
Goings
Bones
Regularity
Habit
Rhythms
Realize
Absorb
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Store
Women
Habits
Body
Stores

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