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All That Matters: "For to see good put in action is what everybody needs"
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Edgar Albert Guest was born in Birmingham, England on August 20th 1881.
In 1891 the family moved to the United States. Guest began his career at the Detroit Free Press as a copy boy and then moved on to reporting. The paper published his first poem
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