Michael Morpurgo
What I Wish I'd Known
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Is There a Falsehood in Your Life?
He was away for the first few years of my life, he was in Baghdad. He tried to get compassionate leave because he'd heard from my mother, his wife, that she was planning on leaving him. And so they went back to a place they'd been happy, cycled around and she didn't change her mind. It was very sad. So I grew up with a stepfather and two half siblings in a strange family which was happy to the rest of the world. We knew my brother Peter and myself that there was an untold truth,. call it a lie, whatever you like."
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