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I used to worry when I was a teenager, even into my twenties, after I'd heard something about schizophrenia and how people just suddenly become schizophrenic that I was insane.

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Brad Warner
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 5
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Akron
Ohio
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Twenties
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