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I don't believe necessarily the past is in the past. It's eternal, it's all around us.
Peter Ackroyd
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Peter Ackroyd
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: October 5
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It is strange, is it not, how a person can adore one's soul so much that they adore one's body also?
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