Little Boy

noun

the code name for the uranium-fueled atomic bomb dropped by the U.S. on Hiroshima in 1945.

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"Someone was watching over me that day because I got to come home to my little boy," she says.

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"But you were the last person to hold my little boy... you met Paul."

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"I was in a clothes shop with my wife, and I was just standing in the doorway in the sunshine, and then this little boy took my hand, a little two-year-old, and that totally freaked me out."

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And he has featured alongside another Liverpudlian, Stephen Graham, in Time, Little Boy Blue, and the recent historical drama A Thousand Blows.

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He concluded: "If this can happen to me, a little boy from humble beginnings, it can happen to you too."

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“Little Bo-Peep”“Little Boy Blue”

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