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There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone.

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Robert Bly
Age: 97
Born: 1926
Born: December 23
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Poet
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Madison
Minnesota
Robert Bly
Robert Elwood Bly
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Men
Healthier
Fifty
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