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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
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Hutchinson
Kansas
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Kids
Anything
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Children
Dancer
Dancing
Dance
Childhood

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