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Summer coming like a car from down the highway.
Sherman Alexie
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Sherman Alexie
Age: 57
Born: 1966
Born: October 7
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Sherman Joseph Alexie
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But we danced, under wigs and between unfinished walls, through broken promises and around empty cupboards.
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And believe me, a good piece of chicken can make anybody believe in the existence of God.
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It's a weird thing. Reservations were meant to be prisons, you know? Indians were supposed to move onto reservations and die. We were supposed to disappear. But somehow or another, Indians have forgotten the reservations were meant to be death camps.
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I felt so conflicted about having fled the rez as a kid that I created a whole literary career that left me there.
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