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Michael Morpurgo

What I Wish I'd Known

CHAPTER

I'd Never Met My Father Before, It Was the First Time I've Ever Met My Dad

I met my father under extraordinary circumstances, I mean, really extraordinary circumstances. We were watching television, black and white television, an adaptation of Dickens' great expectations. My mother hand slapped on on my knee because up from behind this gravestone reared the figure of a magwitch,. she said, oh my God, it's your father. And he was a convict, you know, and I think we just couldn't take our eyes off. Later on myself sat there, some of the step family walked out because what had happened is this great secret had been broken open in a moment. He wasn't a convict at all, he's very sweet, gentle kind. Man, we've

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