I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down y…

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I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive. ✨ Robert F. Kennedy, Edwin O. Guthman, Jeffrey Shulman (1988). Robert Kennedy, in his own words: the unpublished recollections of the Kennedy years, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive. ✨ Robert F. Kennedy, Edwin O. Guthman, Jeffrey Shulman (1988). Robert Kennedy, in his own words: the unpublished recollections of the Kennedy years, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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