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Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It's a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity, because then you are free, you owe them nothing.
Abraham Verghese
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Abraham Verghese
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 1
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Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
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