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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
Thinking
Tend
Hero
Easier
Fight
Battlefields
Fighting
Injured
Find
Hospitals
Sometimes
Heroes
Think
Heal

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