When EPA was formed 40 years ago, water pollution was generally something that could be seen, touched, and smelled.

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This down-to-earth girl that smelled good and wanted to be a nurse would take and hold one of his hands in both of hers to unfreeze him and make him look at her, and she would say that she cannot do it.

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