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Speaker 1: which you're about to listen to. She is that candidate.

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Speaker 1: She has that kind of person who's fighting for the

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Speaker 1: She was a triage a nurse. April two thousand five,

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Speaker 1: And in the process of fighting the system, of fighting

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