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John Smith: Mankind doesn't need warfare and bloodshed to prove itself. Everyday life can provide honour and valour. Let's hope that from now on this country can find its heroes in smaller places. In the most ordinary of deeds.

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Paul Cornell
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 18
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Chippenham
Wiltshire
Paul Douglas Cornell
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