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When I was in my early forties, I slept with a loaded gun under my bed. Id become severely depressed in my thirties, and for almost a decade I spiraled down into paranoia, rage, self-loathing, and thoughts of suicide.
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Byron Katie
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: December 6
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Breckenridge
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Byron Kathleen Mitchell
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