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Paddington creator is remembered

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British actor Hugh Bonneville has joined hundreds of mourners at a memorial service for the creator of the marmalade-loving bear Paddington. Bonneville, who played adoptive father Mr. Brown in the Paddington films, told mourners at London’s

St. Paul’s Cathedral that Michael Bond “was as kindly, dignified, charming and lovable as the immortal Paddington Bear he gave us.” Bond wrote some 20 Paddington books before his death in June at age 91. Writercome­dian Stephen Fry said Bond often asked himself, “‘What would Paddington do?’ I think that would be a good tattoo for all of us.”

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