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Living things have been doing just that for a long, long time. Through every kind of disaster and setback and catastrophe. We are survivors.

Robert Fulghum

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Robert Fulghum
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 4
Author
Novelist
Writer
Waco
Texas
Robert Lee Fulghum
Disaster
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Every
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Things
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