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I knew each person's delusion, the places their records had scratched, where the sounds repeated.

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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
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Add there was that moment when my mother and father walked in the door disguised as old people. I thought the miles in the car had bent them, dulled their eyes, even grayed and whitened their hair and caused their hands and voices to tremble. At the same time, I found, as I rose form the chair, I'd gotten old along with them.
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i want to hear what's happened to you, she said evenly after a while. she gestured in the direction, down river, of the butcher shop. it's just that there is nowhere else to start, she said gently. niether of us is the same. but i'm different because of small, good, manageable things. you're different because ... things i don't know.
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Here is the most telling fact: you wish to possess me. Here is another fact: I loved you and let you think you could.
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What is this life but the sound of an appalling love.
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