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Duwan, Leig

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this grizzled old man was an instructor at the Coruscant Medical Hospital during the years leading up to the Clone Wars. A native of the planet Alderaan, Leig was known for the way he always seemed to smile when he talked to his students. There was one point in his life when Leig considered suicide. His father had died, his mother was in the hospital, and his sister had been lost on a frontier expedition. He could see no reason to live, and left the hospital to contemplate his demise. While he was walking home, a man on the street came up to him and thanked Leig for saving his life. Leig thought that the man had been a patient, but the man explained that he had been outside the hospital one morning. He also had been contemplating suicide, but Leig had smiled at him when he walked into work. The man explained that he had given himself an escape clause to his suicide plan: if any being were to smile at him, he would back out. The man had accepted Leig's smile as a sign, and chose to continue his life. Leig often used this story with his students, in an effort to explain to them that even the smallest of actions could save a being's life.