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Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.

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William Stafford
Age: 79 †
Born: 1914
Born: January 17
Died: 1993
Died: August 28
Author
Poet
Writer
Hutchinson
Kansas
Childhood
Learn
Kids
Anything
Music
Children
Dancer
Dancing
Dance

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