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And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.

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They realize the no money, no church service, no eulogy, no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit.
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Make something beautiful of your life.
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I’ve always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America,
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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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