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THIS UGLY DUCKLING’S A CANARY

She’s never been kissed — and now, everybody wants her.

Frizzy-haired Scottish spinster Susan Boyle has taken the world by storm, blowing away Simon Cowell and his cadre of judges on the television show “Britain’s Got Talent” with her breathtaking performance of “I Dreamed a Dream” from the musical “Les Miserables.”

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As of yesterday evening, an eye-popping 13.7 million people had logged on to YouTube to watch the incredible rendition from last week’s show, which left the hard-edged “American Idol” judge visibly moved and turned the dowdy 47-year-old daughter of a coal miner into an overnight sensation.

“It hasn’t really sunk in yet,” Boyle told “The Early Show” on CBS.

In one four-hour period yesterday, the view count on the video rose by an astonishing 1.3 million, and a fan Web site has been started in her honor.

TV shows from both sides of the Atlantic are clamoring for a chance to interview the singing sensation.

She had been mercilessly mocked when she took the stage — then stunned the audience into silence with her otherworldly voice.

And now there’s talk of a record deal already in the works, according to Britain’s Sunday Mirror.

“Everyone was laughing at you,” said judge Piers Morgan. “No one is laughing now.”

Boyle, who reportedly has never been married, had a boyfriend or even shared a kiss with a man, hails from Blackburn, a town of 5,000 a few miles outside Edinburgh.

She lives alone in the two-bedroom cottage where she grew up, her only source of companionship her music and her cat, Pebbles.

“I’ve had had crushes, but never been in love,” Boyle told the Mirror. “I suppose I’ve accepted it’s never going to happen. The only thing I regret is not having children.”

Her mother, Bridget, died two years ago at 91, and it was in her memory that Boyle was inspired to perform, despite the taunts.

“She devoted herself to looking after her mom, and that’s who she’s singing for now,” Jackie Russell, manager of the Happy Valley Hotel, where Susan has been crooning for two decades, told The Post.

“She has the voice of an angel.”

Boyle, a devout Catholic who spends her time doing charity work, was teased relentlessly in school.

“I was born with a [learning] disability, and that made me a target for bullies,” she told The Mirror. “I was called names because of my fuzzy hair and because I struggled in class.”

Boyle, who dreams of singing on London’s West End and traveling the world, still sees her former classmates around town, married with children.

“But look at me now,” she said. “I’ve got the last laugh.”

tom.liddy@nypost.com