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Hot Spot: Laerke Herthoni

Laerke Herthoni is a 25 year old Danish autodidact director who just moved to Stockholm.

She admits having the most impossible name to pronounce, “Laerke, which means Lark in english. People usually call med Larky, which I really like cause it sounds like a character in Game of Thrones.”

ProViva – “Enough”

RFSL – “Olivia”

 Rebecca & Fiona – “Taken Over”

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