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Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.

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Dick Cavett
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 19
Actor
Artistic Gymnast
Host
Screenwriter
Television Presenter
Writer
Gibbon
Nebraska
Richard Alva Cavett
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