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Your melancholy. Or depression. Along with nine-tenths of the afflictions I've studied, diagnosed, attempted to treat. Call them whatever you like, but they're just different names for loneliness. That's what lets the darkness in. That's what you have to fight.

Andrew Pyper

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Andrew Pyper
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: January 4
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