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Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world but here the earth was the floor of the sky.

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Willa Cather
Age: 73 †
Born: 1873
Born: December 7
Died: 1947
Died: April 24
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Willa Sibert Cather
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There was nothing but land not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.
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