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Original Title: TIL Anthony Hopkins once looked throughout the whole London for the book “The girl from Petrovka”. Unable to find it he headed home, only to find a manuscript off the book on a bench. It later turned out to be the authors copy, which had been in a stolen car and dumped by the theif.