We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice heroism war politics and family struggle.
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To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.