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It's good to focus on the universal suffering that goes on in any war. Whatever the right and wrongs of the war, there is always universal suffering.
Michael Morpurgo
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Michael Morpurgo
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: January 1
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St. Albans
Sir Michael Andrew Bridge Morpurgo
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