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Music

• Philharmonics (Piano Sessions), from Agnes Obel. 

• Pre-Barok by Mica Levi and Oliver Coates. 

• Space in Between by Federico Albanese.

• Warm Canto by Mal Waldron. 

• Blink by Hiroshi Yoshimura.

Notes

• There are two lovely books I relied on heavily for this story: Something to Prove: A Biography of Ann Lowe, Forgotten Designer by Julia Dockery Smith. 

• And Rosemary Read's The Threads of Time, Fabric of History. 

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