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My goal now is to dance all the dances as long as I can, and then to sit down contented after the last elegant tango some sweet night and pass on because there wasn't another dance left in me.

Robert Fulghum

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Robert Fulghum
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 4
Author
Novelist
Writer
Waco
Texas
Robert Lee Fulghum
Goal
Tango
Lasts
Dances
Last
Contented
Left
Elegant
Night
Pass
Another
Dance
Long
Sweet
Wasn

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