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My belief has come about in large measure because of the lives and examples of people I have known - not the famous, not saints, but friends and relations who have lived, and faced death, in the light of the Resurrection story, or in the quiet acceptance that they have a future after they die.

A. N. Wilson

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A. N. Wilson
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: January 1
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