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Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.

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