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Aid workers, when handing out food to starving people, quickly learn that the people fighting for it at the front are the people who need it least. It's the people sitting quietly at the back, too weak to fight, who need it the most. And so too with tragedy.

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Louise Penny
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: July 1
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City of Toronto
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