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Wherever and however any one of us may be conceived, it is the same. We come into being in the arms of God.

Robert Fulghum

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Robert Fulghum
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 4
Author
Novelist
Writer
Waco
Texas
Robert Lee Fulghum
Conceived
Wherever
However
Arms
May
Come

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