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Ellie Harrison

“I love it when my unknown prejudices are proven wrong. Like the old guy we were about to film with on a remote goat farm who ambled out of his house and about whom I instantly made 100 assumptions: he will have lived in this place his whole life; only recently got electricity up here; will only have good goat chat, etc. But he turned

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