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“Through our pain, through our ambitions, through our success, through our failures, through our grief, through our emotions, through our pride, through our intellect, and through our existence. I perhaps would have been minding my own business had I not seen such an attractive view. Attraction and attention, it’s really a privilege for us to experience such actions.”

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