Foreword practice

What's the name of the thing that writers and miners have in common?

How does Michael Morpurgo describe is own way of writing and how does he justify himself?

Have you ever got a single-minded pursuit?

Try to reorder
 to them as - for it was a family joke -  an attempt to produce a daughter. She referred  ‘the four mistakes’,  that each son had been 
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 particular targets ,  was diminutive compared - were her size - their - with theirs -which
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 the teasing was interminable  rarely hurtful,  was it intended to be,her brothers adored her
 for - although- it was-  nor