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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
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Waco
Texas
Robert Lee Fulghum
Every
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Survivors
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Setback
Time
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Catastrophe
Disaster
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