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Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness - perhaps unimaginative of me.

A. N. Wilson

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A. N. Wilson
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: January 1
Biographer
Historian
Novelist
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Staffordshire
Andrew Norman Wilson
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Never
Unimaginative
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Perhaps
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Fear
Death

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