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You know, some people fall right through the hole in their lives. Its invisible, but they come to it after time, never knowing where.

Louise Erdrich

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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
Novelist
Poet
Short Story Writer
Writer
Little Falls
Minnesota
Fall
Come
Right
Never
Hole
Time
Holes
People
Invisible
Knowing
Lives

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