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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
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Short Story Writer
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Little Falls
Minnesota
Hunger
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I had a very free childhood and ranged around on my bicycle the way boys do. I had few restrictions.
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