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Title: How Nelson Mandela Secretly Wrote 'Long Walk to Freedom' in Prison

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Description: Nelson Mandela buried his original handwritten copy of 'Long Walk to Freedom' in a vegetable patch on Robben Island. Here's the story of how his autobiography took decades and subterfuge to come to being.

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