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I feel myself becoming less a person than a place, inhabited, a foreign land.

Louise Erdrich

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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
Novelist
Poet
Short Story Writer
Writer
Little Falls
Minnesota
Feels
Foreign
Becoming
Land
Less
Place
Persons
Person
Feel
Inhabited

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