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Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.

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Lloyd Alexander
Age: 83 †
Born: 1924
Born: January 30
Died: 2007
Died: May 17
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Lloyd Chudley Alexander
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Wales
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Paris
Germany
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