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The Importance of Hope in the Face of Death

I think Agnes would recognise a really good influence in Sied. You know, the kind of impulse to do good. There's this breathtaking passage in Exit West where Sied prays fundamentally as a gesture of love for what had gone and what would go. And I think Agnes, that capacity he has for hope, but also for forgiveness and moving on. The heartache we each carry and yet too often refused to acknowledge in one another.

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