Freud has it that we become ill if we do not love, and songs tell us we must succumb to a love that - bonding us - will devastate us too.

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But explaining my reasoning to Sara meant confronting the mortality of her lung cancer, something that I felt ill prepared to do.

NEWYORKER: Letting Go

The appearance of cases with mild or no symptoms in humans could make tracing even more difficult, but may also mean that many people infected do not get seriously ill and recover quickly, making the virus is less deadly than it appears.

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The letter to the minister questions the quality and sustainability of the plans to treat the most seriously ill newborn babies at Arrowe Park in Wirral in future, adding that they do not currently meet national guidelines.

BBC: Flint protesters

All slums tend to have garbage pickers, but most do not have this type of consciousness, and most are so tired and hungry and often ill that they barely survive.

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There is no doubt the U.S. has a long-run budget problem, and that we need to do a better job caring for the frail elderly who are chronically ill and need both medical care and long-term services.

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He said that most of the people who have the condition do not know they have it and suffer no ill effects.

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They include high school students (encouraging them to go into social science), doctors (arguing that letting sick, ill-informed patients choose between treatments shirks responsibility) and nonprofits (suggesting they do more experiments assessing whether their methods work).

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