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00:32Hey, it's Dua here and welcome to the Service 95 Book Club.
00:35If you're anything like me, books aren't just something that you read and put down.
00:38They stay with you.
00:39They're passports, mirrors, escape routes, secret maps for finding yourself or getting
00:44completely lost in the best way.
00:46Wherever I go, tour buses, airports, studios, there's always a book in my bag or tucked into
00:51a jacket pocket.
01:02After we defined that this was a game, we started to think why we created this new space.
01:07What was going to bring to the conversation?
01:10And the subject of freedom of expression was what motivated us and is what motivated us in
01:15this library.
01:18I'm grateful to Dua Lipa, I'm grateful to the Livre Ilelo, Lulelo Bookstore.
01:24I'm grateful to everyone who was involved in the project because here I am in this amazing
01:28library and I see authors I read when I was an adolescent.
01:35Fahrenheit 451, 1984, To Kill a Mockingbird, which is just a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful
01:42book.
01:43I work in, you know, political advocacy back in the United States and so to see this kind
01:49of space in such an era of so much censorship is super inspiring because I think a lot of
01:54people have the opportunity to actually kind of sit down and reflect at the moment we're
01:58at in history and a place where it can feel tranquil.
02:01Thank you very much.
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02:15Thank you very much.
02:27Thank you very much.
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