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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
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Little Falls
Minnesota
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Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position.
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But if there was embellishment, it only had to do with the facts.
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Now that I knew fear, I also knew it was not permanent. As powerful as it was, its grip on me would loosen. It would pass.
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To sew is to pray. Men don't understand this. They see the whole but they don't see the stitches. They don't see the speech of the creator in the work of the needle.
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We passed over in a sweep of sorrow that would persist into our small forever. We just keep going.
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The length of sky is just about the size of my ignorance. Pure and wide.
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Her clothes were filled with safety pins and hidden tears.
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What is this life but the sound of an appalling love.
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