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Pullman's school days
Pullman鈥檚 time at Ysgol Ardudwy and the friends he made there have inspired characters in his works, such as Derek Dobney, whose firework-throwing antics inspired the literary character Thunderbolt Dobney, the chief mischief-maker in the New Cut Gang series.
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