"Faded as it is, damaged as it is, it still almost moves me to tears that it survives."
Thomas P. Campbell on the tapestry "The Last Supper."
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"Faded as it is, damaged as it is, it still almost moves me to tears that it survives."
Thomas P. Campbell
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