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...occupied France. With what one doctor later called "total lucidity of mind" and a saintly air of peaceful self-possession, Weil drove herself to the point where her body could no longer take in enough food to sustain life. Apologizing to her English doctors for her stubbornness a Dr. Brockerford reports that Weil explained that she "couldn't eat when she thought of the French people starving in France...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: How Sound A Sacrifice? | 2/9/1977 | See Source »

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