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To have so little, and it of so little value, was to be quaintly free.

Wallace Stegner

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Wallace Stegner
Age: 84 †
Born: 1909
Born: February 18
Died: 1993
Died: April 13
Biographer
Environmentalist
Historian
Naturalist
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Writer
Lake Mills
Iowa
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Quaintly
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Littles

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