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Peter Filkins

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When Archie told me the incredible storyof Ladyfrom a forgotten warehouse in bombed-out Berlin,then secretly carted off, scarfed up by the Alliesand loaded onto a plane, delivered to Irelandonly to end up the elaborate inlaid soundboardholding Peg’s ashtray, her snooker of gin,

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