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The previously unloved may find it hard to believe that they are now loved that is such a miracle, they feel such a miracle.

Alexander McCall Smith

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Alexander McCall Smith
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 24
Novelist
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Alexander Sandy McCall Smith
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