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cause when there's life there's still hope

Michael Morpurgo

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Michael Morpurgo
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: January 1
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Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Writer
St. Albans
Sir Michael Andrew Bridge Morpurgo
Michael Andrew Bridge
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We have bodies coming home and coffins covered in flags, not just in the UK but world-wide.
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We're much alike, bee, you and me, I said. You may carry your pack underneath you and your rifle may stick out of your bottom. But you and me, bee, are much alike.
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