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Talent can't be taught, but it can be awakened.

Wallace Stegner

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Wallace Stegner
Age: 84 †
Born: 1909
Born: February 18
Died: 1993
Died: April 13
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Environmentalist
Historian
Naturalist
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Writer
Lake Mills
Iowa
Crafts
Talent
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Awakened

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