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GCR novelist pitches for TV series

MANY people struggle to find a vocation in life, but seven-year-old Stephen Done had a very clear vision of his future career path. He made this momentous announcement to his mother one day in the family’s kitchen stating emphatically: “I am going to be a steam train driver.”

Sadly, he was immediately faced with one of those devastating landmark let-downs everyone faces at some point, when his mother revealed the awful truth: “Darling, I’m afraid this is the last day that steam trains run on the railways!”

He had indeed revealed his intentions on August 3, 1968. Born too late to relish the last flourish of steam, he has magnificently overcome this setback in creating his own coal-fired world by writing a series of

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