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Elmer W. Lovrien

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Born

in Adrian, Minnesota, The United States

Genre

Fiction, Memoir

Influences

Garrison Keillor and Michael Ondaatje

Member Since

September 2008

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Elmer W. Lovrien completed a two-year writing program at The Loft for Writers in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He writes short stories full time. His past weaves its way through a world of social work, newspaper writing for a small town daily newspaper, pre-school teaching, parent education, and crisis counseling. He has travelled extensively by bicycle, pedaling from coast to coast in the United States and through France. He is a small town plumber's son, a one-time altar boy and high school sports enthusiast. His stories reflect many of those experiences. He has been published in the Lake Region Review and has written stories and articles for parenting, family and fathering journals and magazines.
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	Homer The Innocent: Four Stories 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Homer The Innocent: Selected Stories it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Elmer Lovrien rated a book it was amazing The Remembered Soldier by Anjet Daanje (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Elmer Lovrien rated a book it was amazing Mailman: My Wild Ride Delivering the Mail in Appalachia and Finally Finding Home by Stephen Starring Grant	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Elmer Lovrien rated a book it was amazing Storming the Reich (After Dunkirk #8) by Lee Jackson (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Elmer Lovrien rated a book it was amazing The All of It by Jeannette Haien	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Elmer Lovrien rated a book it was amazing The Road to Dalton (Dalton, Maine, #1) by Shannon Bowring (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Fear remained, a lurking thing, but movement and action and the exercise of the mind on the daily problems of existence pushed it into the background.”
― Sławomir Rawicz, The Long Walk

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“old truth that a man may never compromise with evil.”
― David Howarth, The Sledge Patrol: A WWII Epic of Escape, Survival and Victory

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“This is the other way,” he said, as he reached a terrace where he was caught in a honey-colored tractor beam of light. Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.”
― Kareem Aal, No True Love in Tehran: An American Trip to Iran

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“Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams for when dreams go, life is a barren field frozen with snow.”
― May Sarton, At Eighty-Two: A Journal

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“Memories and emotions are fragile things. You should never bear down on them, or draw on them by main force. You should barely touch them with the tips of your fingers, the tips of your dreams.”
― Jacques Lusseyran, And There Was Light: The Extraordinary Memoir of a Blind Hero of the French Resistance in World War II

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