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Two birds fly past. They are needed somewhere.
Robert Bly
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Robert Bly
Age: 97
Born: 1926
Born: December 23
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Minnesota
Robert Bly
Robert Elwood Bly
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Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person.
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