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Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend.

Wallace Stegner

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Wallace Stegner
Age: 84 †
Born: 1909
Born: February 18
Died: 1993
Died: April 13
Biographer
Environmentalist
Historian
Naturalist
Novelist
Writer
Lake Mills
Iowa
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Home
Uprooted
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Homeless
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Appreciate

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