
Tom Hopkinson, editor of Picture Post
Great Lives
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The Story of Tom and Child En
Amanda's relationship with her father had been more through literature than anything else. By the time i was 17 and had done my ay levels, i just felt i didn't know this man at all. And so i decided i wanted to go out to south africa, got a job with the red cross working with kids in a camp for abandoned children. But i stayed with tom and dorothy, his third wife, and we did get known each other then. I think i realized the thing about tom and child en was very much as don very well put it, about tom and everyone else,. He always took what they said seriously, and he always responded kind of in kind.
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