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You will continue to read stories of crookedness and corruption - of policemen who lie and steal, doctors who reap where they do not sew, politicians on the take. Don't be misled. They are news because they are the exceptions.

Robert Fulghum

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Robert Fulghum
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 4
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Robert Lee Fulghum
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