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Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup. The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.

Robert Fulghum

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Robert Fulghum
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 4
Author
Novelist
Writer
Waco
Texas
Robert Lee Fulghum
Seeds
Little
Plant
Really
Roots
Like
Nobody
Growth
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Styrofoam
Seed
Remember
Cups
Littles

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