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Blind terror drove me on, with my flying stirrups whipping me into a frenzy. With no rider to carry I reached the kneeling riflemen first and they scattered as I came upon them.

Michael Morpurgo

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Michael Morpurgo
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: January 1
Author
Novelist
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St. Albans
Sir Michael Andrew Bridge Morpurgo
Michael Andrew Bridge
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