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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
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Little Falls
Minnesota
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Our songs travel the earth. We sing to one another. Not a single note is ever lost and no song is original. They all come from the same place and go back to a time when only the stones howled.
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I prefer to have some beliefs that don't make logical sense.
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What is this life but the sound of an appalling love.
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