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Childhood, after all, is the first precious coin that poverty steals from a child.

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Anthony Horowitz
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 5
Executive Producer
Novelist
Screenwriter
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Great Stanmore
Childhood
Poverty
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Precious

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