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To say nothing is out here is incorrect to say the desert is stingy with everything except space and light, stone and earth is closer to the truth.

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William Least Heat-Moon
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: August 27
Historian
Writer
Kansas City
Missouri
Except
Space
Stingy
Light
Incorrect
Truth
Closer
Earth
Native
Everything
Stone
Nothing
Desert
Stones

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