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Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that.

Louise Erdrich

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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
Novelist
Poet
Short Story Writer
Writer
Little Falls
Minnesota
Protect
Nobody
Break
Life

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