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We find heroes, not on battlefields, but in hospitals that tend the injured. Sometimes I think it’s easier to fight than it is to heal.

Ann Aguirre

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Ann Aguirre
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: August 27
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
the United States of America
Ellen Connor
Ava Gray
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Hospitals
Sometimes
Heroes
Think
Heal
Thinking
Tend
Hero
Easier
Fight
Battlefields
Fighting
Injured

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