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TIL the final words of writer Roald Dahl, were almost: “You know, I’m not frightened. It’s just that I will miss you all so much” to his family. After appearing to fall unconscious the nurse then injected him with morphine to ease his passing, he uttered his actual last words: “Ow, fuck!”

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