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As one old gentleman put it, Son, I don't care if you're stark nekkid and wear a bone in your nose. If you kin fiddle, you're all right with me. It's the music we make that counts.

Robert Fulghum

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Robert Fulghum
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 4
Author
Novelist
Writer
Waco
Texas
Robert Lee Fulghum
Gentleman
Fiddle
Bones
Starks
Son
Stark
Wear
Bone
Care
Counts
Music
Nose
Right
Make
Noses

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