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Though many schizophrenics become curiously attached to their delusions, the fading of the nondelusional world puts them in loneliness beyond all reckoning, a fixed residence on a noxious private planet they can never leave, and where they can receive no visitors.

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Andrew Solomon
Age: 60
Born: 1963
Born: October 30
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Clinical Psychologist
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