Vivien Thomas Biography

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Vivien Thomas is a nice kind hearted guy that is willing to help anyone. He was also a smart and intelligent person that knows what he needs to know.He was the first person to find a cure to the disease blue babies. He started as a kid growing up in Tennessee. When he graduated highschool with top grades he had big dreams of going to medical school.
But all the schools were very costly to get into so he had to save up all of his money. Later that dream was crushed by the great depression. So he found a job in the vanderbelt medical lab where he worked as a lab worker but actually was paid as a janitor. He was mostly smarter than everyone in the lab. But he always received looks cause of his skin color.
After some years of working with the lab

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