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I feel very passionate that we need CAT scanners in every country in the world. There's not a CAT scanner in all of eastern Congo. People don't use the word cancer because they don't get diagnosed. They just die.

Eve Ensler

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Eve Ensler
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: May 25
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