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and his wife moved to Northern Virginia, where they would live fol* many years, but his roots were in Culpeper and he never lost the desire to help others through medicine.

In 1977, Earl Aylor and his wife Bessie built a home in the small community of Boston, near where he grew up, and in 1982 he retired from a $40,000 a year job as a supervisory contract administrator with the Environmental Protection Agency.

At last he would have time for gardening, travel and photography, the hobbies he had long neglected, but that wasn’t what he wanted. Mr. Aylor, now 54, had other ideas: medicine and helping people.

He enrolled in Piedmont Technical Education Center and, surrounded by young girls, studied to become a licensed practical nurse. While in school he worked part-time at Culpeper Memorial Hospital and after graduation joined the staff fulltime in 1985. The work was everything he had hoped, yet Mr. Aylor wasn’t satisfied - with himself.

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