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Kindness Day? Kindness Day? Do you suppose if we were kind and enthusiastic for centuries uninterruptedly, that someone would create 'Nasty, Indifferent Day'?

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Patch Adams
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: May 28
Diplomat
Physician
Washington
District of Columbia
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