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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.

Louise Erdrich

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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
Novelist
Poet
Short Story Writer
Writer
Little Falls
Minnesota
Would
Rock
Time
Rocks
Like
Difference
Smoothed
Differences
Durable
Water
Rushing
Bigs
Wet
Away
Quickly
Around
Stones

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