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You can see people draw the past, present and future as well as dream about it. You go to bed at night and have a dream that says there's a lump in your right breast and the doctor who is foreign, with an accent tells you it's cancer.

Bernie Siegel

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Bernie Siegel
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: October 14
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