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Sometimes we just have to accept there are things we can’t know. Why is your sister ill? Why did my father die?…Sometimes we think we should be able to know everything. But we can’t. we have to allow ourselves to see what there is to see, and we have to imagine.

David Almond

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David Almond
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: May 15
Author
Novelist
Writer
Newcastle
Father
Able
Sister
Everything
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Sometimes
Allow
Things
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Accepting
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Imagine
Dies

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