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Healing is making whole, restoring a state of perfection and balance that has been lost.

Andrew Weil

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Andrew Weil
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: June 8
Medical Doctor
Medical Writer
Physician
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Andrew Thomas Weil
Perfection
Balance
State
Making
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Whole
Restoring
Healing

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