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"There were moments when I felt seriously unhinged; when I was convinced that I would never, ever recover from what had happened, when it was absolutely clear to me that life from this point on would be constant agony."
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Source: Douglas Kennedy (2009). “Leaving the World”, p.355, Random House
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