Moreover, you managed it prior to Thanksgiving without naming names, pointing fingers, or even proposing any one way of life over another.

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The most expensive condition, respiratory failure on a ventilator, is another way of describing the intensive care that patients receive at the end of life for a variety of conditions.

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Friendships forged along the way are another life-enhancing aspect of the journey.

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"I came back from that experience determined that, one way or another, I wanted to be involved in the public life of my country, " Dodd says.

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