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To insist on one's place in the scheme of things and to live up to that place.To empower others in their reaching for some place in the scheme of things.To do these things is to make fairy tales come true.

Robert Fulghum

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Robert Fulghum
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 4
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Robert Lee Fulghum
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