READING THE MOVIE | A Garden Of Words Kind Of Day

Pluviophiles, unite!

I tried to upload this on the EFR YT channel but

surprise, surprise. It got blocked.

Hopefully it'll work here....

Intro / middle song clips from "Floating" by Ad Dios: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAuUx... End Song = "Rain" by Hata Motohiro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aN5KZ... Garden of Words movie: https://smile.amazon.com/Garden-Words... Garden of Words book: https://smile.amazon.com/Garden-Words...

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