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To ponder is not to brood or grieve or even meditate. It is to wonder at a deep level.

Robert Fulghum

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Robert Fulghum
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 4
Author
Novelist
Writer
Waco
Texas
Robert Lee Fulghum
Grieving
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Wonder
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