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When someone's wounded, the first order of business is to stop the bleeding. You can figure out later how best to help them heal.

Jeannette Walls

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Jeannette Walls
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: April 21
Journalist
Writer
Phoenix
Arizona
Business
Bleeding
Helping
Wounded
Order
Heal
Someone
Figure
Best
Later
Firsts
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First
Stop
Help

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