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and shared a video of himself in which he can be heard reciting the poem in background. The visuals capture the actor moving across the maximum city, on a railway station, on a beach, in the iconic ...

of wild fire blazing through a forest up north. no words. You don’t turn away from the horror. I know you will stay where it’s unbearable.

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