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If we learned all we needed to know in kindergarten, it was promptly drummed out of us in first grade.

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Peter McWilliams
Age: 50 †
Born: 1949
Born: August 5
Died: 2000
Died: June 11
Author
Film Director
Poet
Michigan
United States
Peter A. McWilliams
Peter mcwilliams
Peter Alexander McWilliams
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Kindergarten
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Learned
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Drummed

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