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Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position.

Louise Erdrich

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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
Novelist
Poet
Short Story Writer
Writer
Little Falls
Minnesota
Life
Greet
Position
Understand
Death
Feels
Different
Heart

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