&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ilka Tanya Pay&amp;aacute;n: The HIV-Positive Actress and Activist Who Changed the Latino Community&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;text-decoration: underline;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilka_Tanya_Pay%C3%A1n&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ilka Tanya Pay&amp;aacute;n&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &amp;mdash; Latina actress, attorney &amp;amp; HIV activist who broke stigma in the Latino community. Discover her powerful legacy and courageous story.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who Was Ilka Tanya Pay&amp;aacute;n?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Ilka Tanya Pay&amp;aacute;n was not just an actress. She was a lawyer, a community organiser, a voice for the voiceless, and ultimately, one of the most courageous HIV advocates the Latino world has ever known.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Born of Dominican heritage, Pay&amp;aacute;n built her career across multiple fields at a time when women &amp;mdash; especially Latinas &amp;mdash; faced significant barriers in both the entertainment and legal industries. Her determination to succeed on multiple fronts says everything about the kind of person she was long before HIV ever entered her story.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://cms.goodbyehiv.com/Files/Pai/Celebrities%20with%20HIV%20%E2%80%93%2009%20%E2%80%93%20Ilka%20Tanya%20Pay%C3%A1n%20HIV%20Actress%20and%20Activist%20Goodbye%20HIV%2004.jpg&quot; width=&quot;550&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #808080;&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Image source:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.instagram.com/theaidsmemorial&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;citation-7 citation-end-7&quot;&gt;The AIDS Memorial&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;She began her career in front of the camera, gaining recognition through the Spanish-language telenovela &lt;em&gt;Angelica, Mi Vida&lt;/em&gt;. From there, she broke into mainstream Hollywood, landing a small role in the iconic 1983 crime film &lt;em&gt;Scarface&lt;/em&gt; and earning a guest appearance on the acclaimed 1980s television drama &lt;em&gt;Hill Street Blues&lt;/em&gt;. At a time when opportunities for Latina performers were limited, Pay&amp;aacute;n broke through barriers with talent, determination, and an unwavering belief in her own potential.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;More Than an Actress: A Lawyer and Community Builder&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;What makes Ilka Tanya Pay&amp;aacute;n&#39;s story particularly remarkable is that acting was only one chapter of her life. She studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1981, becoming a practising attorney at a time when men still dominated the profession.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Deeply committed to uplifting her own community, Pay&amp;aacute;n also founded the &lt;span style=&quot;text-decoration: underline;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.holaofficial.org/history/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hispanic Organization of Latin Actresses (HOLA)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &amp;mdash; a groundbreaking organisation created to nurture and promote Latino theatrical talent in New York. Through HOLA, she invested in the future of Latino artists, ensuring they had the infrastructure and community support to thrive. This was not the work of someone chasing the spotlight. This was the work of someone who understood that real change requires building institutions, not just individual careers.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://cms.goodbyehiv.com/Files/Pai/Celebrities%20with%20HIV%20%E2%80%93%2009%20%E2%80%93%20Ilka%20Tanya%20Pay%C3%A1n%20HIV%20Actress%20and%20Activist%20Goodbye%20HIV%2005.jpg&quot; width=&quot;550&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #808080;&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Image source:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://impactolatino.com/electra-garrigo-regresa-a-nuestra-escena&quot;&gt;impactolatino.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How Ilka Tanya Pay&amp;aacute;n Acquired HIV&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Pay&amp;aacute;n later said that she acquired HIV through a heterosexual relationship while attending law school in the late 1970s and early 1980s. At that point in history &amp;mdash; the late 1970s and early 1980s &amp;mdash; very little was publicly known about the virus. Most people had no idea they were at risk. There was no widespread testing, no public health campaign aimed at heterosexual women, and no reason for someone like Pay&amp;aacute;n to suspect anything was wrong.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;iframe src=&quot;//www.youtube.com/embed/dUE2POHGvaM&quot; width=&quot;550&quot; height=&quot;314&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;allowfullscreen&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;She did not receive a positive HIV diagnosis until 1986, years after she had been infected. This delay was not unusual for the era &amp;mdash; the HIV test itself only became commercially available in 1985, and access was far from universal.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For several years after her diagnosis, Pay&amp;aacute;n continued her life and work in relative privacy. Going public with an HIV status in the late 1980s and early 1990s was professionally and socially devastating for most people. The stigma was immense, the misinformation was widespread, and the fear was palpable.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Decision to Disclose: A Turning Point in 1993&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Everything changed for Pay&amp;aacute;n in 1993, and the catalyst was grief.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;When beloved Puerto Rican salsa legend &lt;span style=&quot;text-decoration: underline;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodbyehiv.com/celebrities-with-hiv-07-hector-lavoe&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;H&amp;eacute;ctor Lavoe&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; died on June 29, 1993, the Latino community mourned deeply. Lavoe&#39;s death from AIDS-related complications sent shockwaves through a community that had largely denied HIV/AIDS as &quot;someone else&#39;s problem.&quot; For Pay&amp;aacute;n, watching the community&#39;s reaction to Lavoe&#39;s death while silently carrying her own HIV-positive status became impossible to sustain.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;iframe src=&quot;//www.youtube.com/embed/q5tBgcbPjn0&quot; width=&quot;550&quot; height=&quot;314&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;allowfullscreen&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;She decided to publicly disclose her HIV status in 1993, becoming one of the very first Latino celebrities to do so.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The impact was immediate and profound.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Breaking the Stigma in the Latino Community&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To understand what Pay&amp;aacute;n&#39;s disclosure meant, you have to understand the cultural context of the time. In many parts of the Latino community in the early 1990s, HIV/AIDS was widely perceived as a disease that only affected gay men, sex workers, and intravenous drug users. It was viewed through a lens of moral judgement rather than medical reality. Heterosexual Latinas &amp;mdash; educated, professional, accomplished women like Pay&amp;aacute;n &amp;mdash; were simply not part of the public conversation about HIV risk.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Pay&amp;aacute;n&#39;s announcement shattered that narrative.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here was a lawyer, an actress, a community founder &amp;mdash; a woman of impeccable standing &amp;mdash; telling the world that HIV did not discriminate. That it could reach anyone. That silence was not protection; it was just silence.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The reaction was not uniformly welcoming. Disclosure of HIV status in that era often brought rejection, discrimination, and social isolation. For Pay&amp;aacute;n to step forward in such a visible, unapologetic way required extraordinary personal courage. She understood that the reaction might cost her professionally and personally. She did it anyway.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&quot;Fighting that stereotype became Pay&amp;aacute;n&#39;s new mission in life,&quot; and she pursued it with the same intensity she had brought to law and to acting.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;From Actress and Lawyer to International Advocate&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Once Pay&amp;aacute;n committed to advocacy, she did not do it halfway.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;On &lt;strong&gt;December 10, 1993&lt;/strong&gt;, she was selected as the featured speaker at the &lt;strong&gt;United Nations panel for World AIDS Day&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;mdash; one of the most prestigious platforms available for HIV/AIDS advocacy at the time. Standing before an international audience and speaking with the authority of someone living with the virus, Pay&amp;aacute;n made a powerful case for education, compassion, and an end to stigma.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://cms.goodbyehiv.com/Files/Pai/Celebrities%20with%20HIV%20%E2%80%93%2009%20%E2%80%93%20Ilka%20Tanya%20Pay%C3%A1n%20HIV%20Actress%20and%20Activist%20Goodbye%20HIV%2009.jpg&quot; width=&quot;550&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #808080;&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Image source:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://media.un.org/photo/en/asset/oun7/oun7684276&quot;&gt;United Nations Photo/Eskinder Debebe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Her work did not go unrecognised at the highest levels. &lt;strong&gt;Dominican President Joaqu&amp;iacute;n Balaguer&lt;/strong&gt; awarded her the &lt;strong&gt;Medal of Honor&lt;/strong&gt; in recognition of her extraordinary activism &amp;mdash; a formal acknowledgement from her ancestral homeland that her courage had meaning far beyond the United States.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;In &lt;strong&gt;August 1995&lt;/strong&gt;, Pay&amp;aacute;n appeared on the cover of &lt;strong&gt;POZ magazine&lt;/strong&gt;, the leading publication for people living with HIV/AIDS. That cover represented a powerful visual statement: a proud, accomplished Latina woman, visible and unashamed.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://cms.goodbyehiv.com/Files/Pai/Celebrities%20with%20HIV%20%E2%80%93%2009%20%E2%80%93%20Ilka%20Tanya%20Pay%C3%A1n%20HIV%20Actress%20and%20Activist%20Goodbye%20HIV%2007.jpg&quot; width=&quot;550&quot; style=&quot;display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot; /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #808080;&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Image source:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://impactolatino.com/fallece-elsa-ortiz-pionera-de-nuestra-escena&quot;&gt;impactolatino.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/search/index?q=Ilka%20Tanya%20Pay%C3%A1n&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em style=&quot;color: #808080;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Her Final Chapter: Advocacy Through Work&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;In her final years, Ilka Tanya Pay&amp;aacute;n channelled her legal skills directly into HIV/AIDS service. She worked in the legal department at &lt;strong&gt;Gay Men&#39;s Health Crisis (GMHC)&lt;/strong&gt; in New York, one of the oldest and most respected HIV/AIDS service organisations in the world.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Even as her own health declined, she continued to show up, continued to work, and continued to use her professional training to help others navigate the legal complexities that HIV-positive individuals so often faced &amp;mdash; issues of employment discrimination, housing rights, healthcare access, and end-of-life planning.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;She died on &lt;strong&gt;April 6, 1996&lt;/strong&gt;, at a time before antiretroviral combination therapy had transformed HIV from a near-certain death sentence into a manageable chronic condition. She did not live to see that transformation.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why Ilka Tanya Pay&amp;aacute;n&#39;s Legacy Still Matters&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;More than three decades after her death, Ilka Tanya Pay&amp;aacute;n&#39;s story remains deeply relevant &amp;mdash; not as a historical footnote, but as a living lesson in what courage actually looks like.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;She reminds us that:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HIV does not discriminate.&lt;/strong&gt; It does not check your profession, your education, your gender, your ethnicity, or your moral character. Pay&amp;aacute;n&#39;s life is proof of that, and her decision to say so publicly, loudly, and without shame helped save lives.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Representation in advocacy is life-saving.&lt;/strong&gt; When Latino communities saw a woman like Pay&amp;aacute;n &amp;mdash; one of their own, clearly not belonging to the stereotyped risk groups &amp;mdash; they were forced to reckon with the reality of HIV in their communities. Representation does not just matter for inspiration. Sometimes it matters for survival.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Community institutions matter.&lt;/strong&gt; Long before her HIV diagnosis, Pay&amp;aacute;n was building HOLA, investing in others, and creating structures for people to belong to. That instinct toward community-building was the same one that drove her advocacy. People who build things are the ones who change things.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Using your skills in the service of others is a form of heroism.&lt;/strong&gt; She didn&#39;t just speak at conferences. She went to work every day at GMHC, using the law degree she had earned through years of effort, in the service of people who desperately needed legal help. That quiet, daily dedication is its own kind of greatness.&lt;a href=&quot;https://impactolatino.com/fallece-elsa-ortiz-pionera-de-nuestra-escena&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://cms.goodbyehiv.com/Files/Pai/Celebrities%20with%20HIV%20%E2%80%93%2009%20%E2%80%93%20Ilka%20Tanya%20Pay%C3%A1n%20HIV%20Actress%20and%20Activist%20Goodbye%20HIV%2011.jpg&quot; width=&quot;550&quot; style=&quot;display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot; /&gt;&lt;em style=&quot;color: #808080;&quot;&gt;Image source:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/search/index?q=Ilka%20Tanya%20Pay%C3%A1n&quot;&gt;The New York Public Library Digital Collections&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Key Facts: Ilka Tanya Pay&amp;aacute;n at a Glance&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Detail&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Information&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Heritage&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Dominican&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Career&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Actress, Attorney, Community Organizer&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Notable Roles&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Angelica, Mi Vida&lt;/em&gt; (telenovela), &lt;em&gt;Scarface&lt;/em&gt; (1983), &lt;em&gt;Hill Street Blues&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Organization Founded&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Hispanic Organization of Latin Actresses (HOLA)&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Bar Admission&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;1981&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;HIV Acquired&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Late 1970s / early law school years&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Tested Positive&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;1986&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Public Disclosure&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;1993&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;UN World AIDS Day Speech&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;December 10, 1993&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Award&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Medal of Honor, Dominican Republic (President Joaqu&amp;iacute;n Balaguer)&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;POZ Magazine Cover&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;August 1995&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Final Workplace&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Gay Men&#39;s Health Crisis (GMHC), Legal Department&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Date of Death&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;April 6, 1996&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Legacy of Courage&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ilka Tanya Pay&amp;aacute;n chose truth over comfort, community over self-protection, and action over silence. In the short window of time she had after her diagnosis became public, she made an impact that extended far beyond her own life &amp;mdash; challenging stereotypes, crossing cultural borders, and reaching a community that desperately needed to hear what she had to say.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://cms.goodbyehiv.com/Files/Pai/Celebrities%20with%20HIV%20%E2%80%93%2009%20%E2%80%93%20Ilka%20Tanya%20Pay%C3%A1n%20HIV%20Actress%20and%20Activist%20Goodbye%20HIV%2008.jpg&quot; width=&quot;550&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #808080;&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Image source:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/search/index?q=Ilka%20Tanya%20Pay%C3%A1n&quot;&gt;The New York Public Library Digital Collections&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;She was an actress. She was a lawyer. She was an activist. And she was someone who, when the moment came, chose to use everything she had built in the service of others.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;That is a life worth knowing about.&lt;/p&gt;

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