Daniel Woodrell Quotes

I was thinking of my father's family. I can find their graves, but not that much about them. They didn't do anything notable enough to be in the records of newspapers.

Daniel Woodrell

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• I was thinking of my father's family. I can find their graves, but not that much about them. They didn't do anything notable enough to be in the records of newspapers.

  

  Daniel Woodrell
  • Thinking
  • Family
  • Father