She is not the only one who is suffering.

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She is said to have been suffering months of back pain and is reported to have been diagnosed with a herniated spinal disc.

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Having grown up in apartheid South Africa, she is always awake to stories of suffering, particularly when it arises from social inequities.

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According to a victim impact report, the pensioner "is unlikely to get back to the person she was before the incident and is at risk of suffering from clinical depression".

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Kenya is a country suffering from what she calls chronic land hunger, a problem which first surfaced during colonial rule but which has never been properly addressed since independence in 1963.

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It is not trivial to give up safety in order to satisfy curiosity, even in a game, though she acknowledges that the cost is not equivalent to that of suffering an illness in the real world.

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Ms. Quinn, 46, the frontrunner in the mayor's race, denied Tuesday that her decision to make her struggles public is politically motivated, saying she primarily hoped to help people suffering similar problems.

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He says his wife didn't know "how to understand" that he was suffering from a mental disorder and that is why she decided to leave him.

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She remembers his suffering from persistent indigestion ever since Arda, her mother, who is also his paternal aunt, brought him from a nomadic hamlet during his early teens as her charge in order to facilitate his receiving proper schooling in Mogadiscio.

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