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Everyday hundreds of people came to the hospital... dying, and I have to introduce life into them again... my duty was to compete with death.

Ala Bashir

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Ala Bashir
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: January 1
Painter
Physician
Sculptor
Surgeon
Republic of Iraq
Suffering
Introducing
Death
Compete
Life
Hospitals
People
Hundreds
Everyday
Dying
Duty
Introduce
Came
Hospital

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