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It is the chair in honor of all those who, however competently, embrace the impossible. Sit in that chair someday.

Robert Fulghum

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Robert Fulghum
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 4
Author
Novelist
Writer
Waco
Texas
Robert Lee Fulghum
Someday
Embrace
However
Honor
Impossible
Competently
Chair
Chairs

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