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So you drive as far as you can, even when you can clearly read the sign. You want to think you are exempt, that it doesn’t apply to you. But it does. Life is still a dead end. And we still have a hard time believing it

Robert Fulghum

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Robert Fulghum
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 4
Author
Novelist
Writer
Waco
Texas
Robert Lee Fulghum
Hard
Drive
Even
Dead
Believe
Read
Time
Doesn
Exempt
Think
Ends
Apply
Thinking
Stills
Believing
Life
Doe
Sign
Still
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