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The Death in Two Thousand Nine of Harry Patch
Tommy San was a Japanese man who survived the bombing of nagasaki. He felt that he was treated with some suspicion by his japanese neighbors, and so decided to take his own life at home in scotland. "He's just an emblem of of the tragedy," says author David Walliams. 'By focusing it on one person ... i was trying to humanize'
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