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“I like what I hear as a resulting combination of these two strands... something of a combination of familiarity and, for lack of a better word, strangeness.” quote by Alex North — Download Open image

“I like what I hear as a resulting combination of these two strands... something of a combination of familiarity and, for lack of a better word, strangeness.”

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