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Bob Ross was lucky to do what he loved until the end of his days—but that’s when the trouble began.

After discovering his true passion, Bob Ross made possibly the biggest career change imaginable to gamble on a job in television, and the TV world was all the better for it. Not knowing just how iconic he would become, Bob’s only goal in life was to make the world a better place by teaching people art, something he was lucky enough to do until the end of his days—but that was when the trouble began.
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