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To be of mixed blood is a great gift for a writer. I have one foot on tribal lands and one foot in middle-class life.

Louise Erdrich

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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
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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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