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Some are born in their place, some find it, some realize after long searching that the place they left is the one they have been searching for.
Wallace Stegner
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Wallace Stegner
Age: 84 †
Born: 1909
Born: February 18
Died: 1993
Died: April 13
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It is the abiding concern of thinking people to preserve what keeps men human-to save our contact with nature of which we are a part.
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