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Adopting means opening your home, and heart, to a life you've never known. But there is nothing as richly rewarding as being an adoptive parent.

Michael Gove

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Michael Gove
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 26
British Politician
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Edinburgh
Scotland
Michael Andrew Gove
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