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My Spirit Took You In: The Romance that Sparked an Epidemic of Fear: A Memoir of the Life and Death of Thomas Eric Duncan, America's First Ebola Victim
Written by Louise Troh and Christine Wicker
Narrated by Bahni Turpin
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Louise Troh-fiancEe of Thomas Eric Duncan, the first man ever to die of Ebola in America-breaks her silence about her experience in this deeply moving memoir, chronicling the decade-long love story that starts in Liberia and ends in an isolation ward in Dallas, Texas.
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