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The idea of what it is like to lose everything is awful.

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Andrew Solomon
Age: 60
Born: 1963
Born: October 30
Author
Clinical Psychologist
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Manhattan borough
New York City
Loses
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Ideas
Everything
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Awful
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