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In a culture where profit has become the true God, self-sacrifice can seem incomprehensible rather than noble.
Starhawk
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Starhawk
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: June 17
Environmentalist
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St Paul
Minnesota
Miriam Simos
Miriam Samos
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