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We all got holes in our lives. Nobody dies in a perfect garment.

Louise Erdrich

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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
Novelist
Poet
Short Story Writer
Writer
Little Falls
Minnesota
Holes
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Nobody
Dies
Perfect
Lives
Life
Garment
Garments

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By writing I can live in ways that I could not survive.
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