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I spend my time dwelling on revenge and try to deal with the monsters crawling out of the ashes.

Louise Erdrich

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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
Novelist
Poet
Short Story Writer
Writer
Little Falls
Minnesota
Trying
Crawling
Time
Dwelling
Ashes
Monsters
Revenge
Spend
Deal
Deals

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