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Burning every bridge that I cross to find some beautiful place to get lost.
Elliott Smith
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Elliott Smith
Age: 34 †
Born: 1969
Born: August 6
Died: 2003
Died: October 21
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Nebraska
Steven Paul Elliott Smith
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While his history of depression is compatible with suicide... and the location and direction of the stab wounds are consistent with self-infliction, several aspects of the circumstances (as they are known at this time) are atypical of suicide and raise the possibility of homicide.
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But I was also doing odd jobs around Portland, like spreading gravel and transplanting bamboo trees.
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