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“People are not perfect... very often the relationships that are strongest are those where people have worked through big crises, but they've had to work through them. So the challenge to us is to work through that.”

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Patricia Hewitt

Patricia Hewitt is a prominent British politician, born on December 2, 1948. She served as the Secretary of State for Health, dedicated to improving the National Health Service (NHS). more

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