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His mother claims he’s a fighter pilot.
From the Second World War, she says.
She wasn’t born till five years after.

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She says she saw him downed over Deutschland.
Get captured, POW’d.
Saw his wife and child back in Blighty.

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That aged two, he spoke like a man distressed.
That his body ditched like a plane.
That she saw his whole life before her.