Those summers were when David felt most fully himself, trotting alongside Priscilla down the rocky streets, climbing at midnight up the slender path beside the stream to a large flat stone that they considered their own, reclining there shoulder to shoulder, talking without thinking as stars fell overhead.

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Stone has remained in rural Devon despite a constant stream of success - by 17 she had released two albums, completed a worldwide tour with 97 dates and was being hailed by some as "the white Aretha Franklin".

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Gentle green hills line the meandering stream, and below them lies a pretty little town with an old stone bridge.

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