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If you want an interesting party sometime, combine cocktails and a fresh box of crayons for everyone.

Robert Fulghum

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Robert Fulghum
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 4
Author
Novelist
Writer
Waco
Texas
Robert Lee Fulghum
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Crayons
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Crayon
Interesting
Cocktails
Everyone
Sometime
Combine
Fresh
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