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Don't pray for the rain to stop pray for good luck fishing when the river floods.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
Author
Farmer
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Henry County
Kentucky
Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry
Praying
Floods
Stop
Flood
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Fishing
River
Pray
Rivers
Luck
Rain

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