Character of the week: Alice, by Paulo Coelho

If you visit Paulo Coelho's blog you can read his neat post about Alice, chosen character of the week on 12 March 2011.
As you see, we are not the only ones going for Alice this year. It's nice to see that somebody like Mr Coelho is thinking about Alice and Lewis Carroll too.

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