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No one who had never been depressed like me could imagine that the pain could get so bad that death became a star to hitch up to, a fantasy of peace someday which seemed better than any life with all this noise in my head.

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Elizabeth Wurtzel
Age: 52 †
Born: 1967
Born: July 31
Died: 2020
Died: January 7
Autobiographer
Journalist
Lawyer
Writer
New York City
New York
Elizabeth Lee Wurtzel
Peace
Noise
Pain
Seemed
Death
Fantasy
Better
Star
Never
Became
Hitch
Life
Head
Prozac
Like
Imagine
Depressed
Stars
Someday

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