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My whole life was service to people and the Fatherland.

I had to do something for the country.

Everything my mother and father did was designed to put me where I am.

I had to steal to survive.

Anything to do with the land, I love.

I risked my life.

When I was a boy, I took over the shed at the bottom of the garden and displayed fossils and potsherds and coins in it and proudly called it my 'museum'. I charged people to come in, and my most prized possession was a Saracen shield dating from the Crusades.