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It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass.

Gene Tierney

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Gene Tierney
Age: 70 †
Born: 1920
Born: November 19
Died: 1991
Died: November 6
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Brooklyn
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Gene Eliza Tierney
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