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I think more and more people are recognizing how much adults and elders are actually needed. That's a gift of the sibling society.

Robert Bly

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Robert Bly
Age: 97
Born: 1926
Born: December 23
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Madison
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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