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she braided my sister's hair with hands that smelled deep roots buried in the earth she told me the old stories how time never mattered when she died they gave me her clock

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Sherman Alexie
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: October 7
Film Director
Film Producer
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Wellpinit
Washington
Sherman Joseph Alexie
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Time
Gave
Braided
Deep
Smelled
Hair
Mattered
Told
Buried
Hands
Sister
Stories
Clock
Earth
Roots
Never
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