come and see me sing Burns because she thinks he was a fornicator and a philanderer, but he wasn't," says [Eddi Reader] the welder's daughter from Glasgow, with defensiveness bordering on indignation.
"He was a 25-year-old boy who was very handsome, spoke French, made you laugh, danced until three in the morning and everyone fell in love with him.
from The Age: Scotland the proud: the Burns legacy
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