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You never know where you're going to find the same thoughts in another brain, but when it happens you know it right off, just like you were connected by a small electrical wire that suddenly glows red hot and sparks.

Louise Erdrich

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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
Novelist
Poet
Short Story Writer
Writer
Little Falls
Minnesota
Going
Thoughts
Glows
Never
Small
Electrical
Like
Brain
Wire
Understanding
Sparks
Another
Hot
Happens
Red
Find
Suddenly
Right
Connected

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