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A woman's body is the gate to this life. A man's body is the gate to the next life.

Louise Erdrich

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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
Novelist
Poet
Short Story Writer
Writer
Little Falls
Minnesota
Gate
Gates
Woman
Next
Body
Men
Life

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