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Thursday, 16 May 2013

champions

Posted on 14:57 by clark

Oh, my son and I finally finished
reading Mr. Roald Dahl’s wonderful book
DANNY, THE CHAMPION OF THE WORLD
a book which of course all fathers love,
as it ends with those memorable words:
“What I have been trying so hard to tell you all
along is simply that my father, without the slightest
doubt, was the most marvelous exciting father any
boy ever had.” As the Cowardly Lion once said,
“Shucks folks, I’m speechless…”
Furthermore, it has this great final page:





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