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• ISBN: 1565846923
• ISBN: 9781565846920
• Physical Description: xxiv, 407 pages ; 24 cm.
• Publisher: New York : New Press : 2001.

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Tom Gates, a retired fireman -- Bob Gates, a retired police officer -- Dr. Joseph Messer -- Dr. Sharon Sandell -- Dr. John Barrett -- Marc and Noreen Levison, a paramedic and a nurse -- Lloyd (Pete) Haywood, a former gangbanger -- Claire Hellstern, a nurse -- Ed Reardon, a paramedic -- Robert Soreghan, a homicide detective -- Delbert Lee Tibbs, a former death-row inmate -- Dr. Frank Raila -- Haskell Wexler, a cinematographer -- Tammy Snider, a Hiroshima survivor (hibakusha) -- V.I.M. (Victor Israel Marquez), a Vietnam vet -- Angelina Rossi, his mother -- Guadalupe Reyes, a mother -- Rev. Willie T. Barrow -- Father Leonard Dubi -- Rabbi Robert Marx -- Pastor Tom Kok -- Rev. Ed Townley -- Rick Rundle, a city sanitation worker -- Randy Beuscher, an associate architect -- Chaz Ebert, a lawyer -- Antoinette Korotko-Hatch, a church worker -- Karen Thompson, a student -- Dimitri Mihalas, an astronomer and physicist -- Hank Oettinger, a retired printer -- Ira Glass, a radio journalist -- Kid Pharaoh, a retired "collector" -- Quinn Brisben, a retired teacher -- Kurt Vonnegut, a writer -- Bruce Bendinger, an advertising executive and writer -- Doc Watson, a folksinger -- Vernon Jarrett, a journalist -- Peggy Terry, a retired mountain woman -- Bessie Jones, a Georgia Sea Island Singer (1972) -- Rosalie Sorrels, a traveling folksinger -- Tico Valle, a young man -- Lori Cannon, "curator" of the Open Hand Society -- Brian Matthews, an ex-bartender, writer for a gay weekly -- Jewell Jenkins, a hospital aide -- Justin Hayford, a journalist, musician -- Matta Kelly, a case manager -- Jim Hapgood -- Nancy Lanoue -- Dr. Gary Slutkin -- William Warfield, a singer and teacher -- Uta Hagen, an actress -- Mick Betancourt -- Carlos Cortez, a painter and poet -- Vine Deloria, a writer and teacher -- Helen Sclair, a cemetery familiar -- Steve Young, a father -- Maurine Young, a mother -- William Herdegen, an undertaker -- Rory Moina, a hospice nurse -- Mamie Mobley, a mother -- Dr. Marvin Jackson, a son -- Kathy Fagan and Linda Gagnon, mothers.

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