And when you are performing the equivalent action on Siri, your device is passing that information to a remote server which is processing the request and then returning an answer, in pieces, back to your device.

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In 1985, at the request of Mother Teresa, I moved my small, volunteer operation to Jeremie, an extremely remote area in southwestern Haiti.

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