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We are so busy giving our children what we never had that we forget to give them what we did have.

James Dobson

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James Dobson
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: April 21
Author
Businessperson
Non-Fiction Writer
Politician
Psychologist
Radio Personality
Shreveport
Louisiana
James Clayton Jim Dobson
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