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Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.
William Stafford
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William Stafford
Age: 79 †
Born: 1914
Born: January 17
Died: 1993
Died: August 28
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...What you fear will not go away it will take you into yourself and bless you and keep you. That's the world, and we all live there.
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