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Senator Mark Hatfield writes of touring Calcutta with Mother Teresa and visiting the “House of Dying.” It was a home where sick children are cared for in their last days and where the poor line up by the hundreds to receive medical attention. Hatfield was watching Mother Teresa and her companions care for those who had been left by others to die and he remembers being so overwhelmed by the magnitude of the suffering they faced everyday. Hatfield approached Mother Teresa and said,...

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