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Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.

Louise Erdrich

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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
Novelist
Poet
Short Story Writer
Writer
Little Falls
Minnesota
Columbus
Discovered
Discover
Didn
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America

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