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    A Look at Life: A Collection of Poems
    A Look at Life: A Collection of Poems
    A Look at Life: A Collection of Poems
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    A Look at Life: A Collection of Poems

    By Mike Pears

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    This book is a collection of poems on emotions through life that we can all associate with.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris UK
    Release dateJan 11, 2017
    ISBN9781524595203
    A Look at Life: A Collection of Poems
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    Mike Pears

    Mike Pears was born in England in 1941 during the Second World War. He is the eldest of a family of five and has three sisters and one brother. Having had a happy upbringing, he left school at sixteen and served a five-year electrical apprenticeship, and with further college education over nine years of part-time study, he ended his working life as a building engineering services consultant. Now retired and living in Devizes, a lovely small market town in Wiltshire, UK, he has time to devote to his love of writing and is looking forward to completing his first novel.

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