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“The things I'm grateful for are: I had the one…” quote by David Rees — Download Open image

“The things I'm grateful for are: I had the one thing that I feel really lucky about, which is that I made something, I made art, that truly - in a weird way - truly comforted me and comforted a lot of people. And I'm really grateful that I got to have that experience.”

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