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People forget the good, because the bad has more punch.
Louise Erdrich
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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
Novelist
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Little Falls
Minnesota
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Evil
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I had a very free childhood and ranged around on my bicycle the way boys do. I had few restrictions.
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Time was rushing around me like water around a big wet rock. The only difference is, I was not so durable as stones. Very quickly I would be smoothed away.
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