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He despised his body for its boring hungers, reflex anger its petty, obliterating rage. But now he'd become detached. He regarded his body with a tender regret. It was the thing his spirit had to haul.

Louise Erdrich

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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
Novelist
Poet
Short Story Writer
Writer
Little Falls
Minnesota
Anger
Detached
Regret
Despised
Spirit
Tender
Become
Regarded
Obliterating
Body
Petty
Hungers
Thing
Rage
Reflex
Hunger
Reflexes
Boring
Haul

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