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The winding down of summer puts me in a heavy philosophical mood.

Robert Fulghum

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Robert Fulghum
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 4
Author
Novelist
Writer
Waco
Texas
Robert Lee Fulghum
Winding
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Philosophical
Mood
Heavy
Summer

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