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It's impossible to write about Native life without humor-that's how people maintain sanity.

Louise Erdrich

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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
Novelist
Poet
Short Story Writer
Writer
Little Falls
Minnesota
Life
Maintain
People
Native
Indian
Humor
Impossible
Write
Without
Writing
Sanity

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