“My dream was to give people a dream.”

— Lydia Canaan

As quoted in interview with Fumiya Akashika, RedDeer International, October 10, 2014 https://reddeervoice.wordpress.com/2014/10/09/lydia-canaan-passion-for-music-and-humanity/

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