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I am a little thing, a tiny little thing on the vast prairies. I know nothing. My mouth is dirty. I cannot tell what I want. My feet are sunk in the black swampy land, but I am a lover. I love life. In the end love shall save me.

Sherwood Anderson

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Sherwood Anderson
Age: 64 †
Born: 1876
Born: September 13
Died: 1941
Died: March 8
Novelist
Writer
Buck Fever
Thing
Land
Dirty
Love
Black
Mouth
Life
Tell
Mouths
Cannot
Tiny
Prairies
Ends
Lovers
Sunk
Littles
Save
Prairie
Little
Feet
Lover
Nothing
Shall
Vast

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