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I talk about very serious human affairs but with a lightness of heart.

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
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Humans
Heart
Lightness
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