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You see I thought love got easier over the years so it didn't hurt so bad when it hurt, or feel so good when it felt good. I thought it smoothed out and old people hardly noticed it. I thought it curled up and died, I guess. Now I saw it rear up like a whip and lash.

Louise Erdrich

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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
Novelist
Poet
Short Story Writer
Writer
Little Falls
Minnesota
Thought
Hardly
Smoothed
Feel
Guess
Lash
Feels
Died
Curled
Years
Saws
Rear
Good
Easier
Lashes
Love
Hurt
Whip
Like
Felt
Whips
People
Didn
Noticed

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