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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
Really
Plant
Like
Roots
Nobody
Growth
Goes
Styrofoam
Remember
Seed
Littles
Cups
Little
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