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Always remember deep in your heart that all is well and everything is unfolding as it should. There are no mistakes anywhere, at any time. What appears to be wrong is simply your own false imagination. That's all.

Robert Adams

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Robert Adams
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 8
Photographer
Orange
New Jersey
Robert Hickman Adams
Robert ii Adams
Remember
Anywhere
Wells
False
Everything
Mistakes
Well
Deep
Heart
Simply
Always
Mistake
Time
Imagination
Unfolding
Wrong
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