Cortani started training dogs more than 30 years ago while she was in the Army, and she translated that to civilian life, where she runs a canine obedience school.

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That is, he was the saint who translated the council into the life of the Church.

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"I suffered a lot in my life, " Aesha said, as Jamila translated, days before her first surgery last June.

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