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<\/p>\nHappy Birthday to the greatest human being who has ever lived, Sir David Attenborough.<\/p>\n
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If anyone has ever deserved to live to a hundred, and with all his faculties still intact, it\u2019s you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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