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Chapter 5 steps back emotionally from Haiti and moves back through time to give Paul Farmer's biography. In 1959, Farmer was born in North Adams, Massachusetts. He had three sisters and two brothers. His father, Paul Sr., was a large and energetic man who loved sports and physical activities, but did not always have complete focus. His mother, Ginny, left college to marry Paul Sr., and she and the family accompanied him through a range of adventures. In 1966, Paul Sr. moved the family to Birmingham, Alabama, and then, in 1971, to Florida in a school bus...
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