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Michael Morpurgo

What I Wish I'd Known

CHAPTER

The Elephant's Child by Rudyard Kipling

She was always kind, that's for sure, very tired. We didn't touch much, people didn't hug, you know, it was sissy to hug sort of thing and she grew up in that sort of world. One wonderful thing I do remember is that because she'd been an actor in a young life went to Radha and was really good and she had a wonderful voice. She would come pretty religiously and sit on our bed, Peter and myself and read to us last night. And I think that she gave me that love of story which is a wonderful gift to go to a child so she gave me life"

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