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Love is a fabric which never fades, no matter how often it is washed in the water of adversity and grief.

Robert Fulghum

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Robert Fulghum
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 4
Author
Novelist
Writer
Waco
Texas
Robert Lee Fulghum
Grief
Water
Often
Matter
Never
Washed
Love
Fades
Fabric
Adversity

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