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I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on.

Louise Erdrich

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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
Novelist
Poet
Short Story Writer
Writer
Little Falls
Minnesota
Inspirational
Death
America
Discouraged
Wells
Traveled
Well
Grew
Word
Talking

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