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Butterfly Effect
Carriageworks Theatre, Leeds/Touring
ONE day last year, Juliette Burton was informed that her aunt had a terminal illness and her dog had died.
Finding herself alone and in tears at London's King's Cross Station, her life was changed when a stranger gave her a tissue — a small gesture that made her reconsider her own and society's attitude towards kindness.
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