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Anything can happen. The great banana peel of existence is always on the floor somewhere.

Robert Fulghum

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Robert Fulghum
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 4
Author
Novelist
Writer
Waco
Texas
Robert Lee Fulghum
Happens
Anything
Peel
Great
Banana
Always
Bananas
Floor
Somewhere
Happen
Existence

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