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![“I had never really written songs for anyone before. With [Broken] Social Scene, you're writing songs for others and your passing them around and exchanging things, but for a man who has the history that Andy Kim had, and has lived the life that he's had, you see such a youthful aspect of how he…” quote by Kevin Drew](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/0a1/kevin-drew-22547_aspect_i-had-never-really-written-songs-for-any_864668.png)
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