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The reel then is to give us joy and to bring life into ourselves, to wake up and go and get out there and dance and meet and celebrate because we haven’t done that yet as a nation.
So the slip jig was where we were and where we’re partly yet and the reel is something to come where we can let go and actually be ourselves.
