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  "textContent": "“The Singers” filmmaker Sam A. Davis had read the 19th-century short story of the same name but “I was a little bored by it. I kept nodding off,” he admits, adding that it was late at night when he read it. As he made his way through the dense pages that chronicle a night at […]",
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