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Depression - it falls into that small category of things like combat that, if you haven't been in it, you can say you can imagine it all you like. But it's truly different.
Dick Cavett
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Dick Cavett
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 19
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Richard Alva Cavett
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