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If it is possible to be happy in the middle of a nightmare, then Topthorn and I were happy that summer.

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
Michael Andrew Bridge
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