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I have brothers and was a tomboy, if that's still a designation. It wasn't a stretch for me to think and write as a 13-year-old boy - it is freeing.

Louise Erdrich

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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
Novelist
Poet
Short Story Writer
Writer
Little Falls
Minnesota
Thinking
Wasn
Year
Designation
Write
Tomboy
Stills
Freeing
Still
Stretch
Writing
Brothers
Years
Brother
Think
Boys

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