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Lilly was not crazy. She left a serious suicide note. 'Sorry,' said the note. 'Just not big enough.

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John Irving
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 2
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Exeter
New Hampshire
John Winslow Irving
Sorry
Serious
Crazy
Bigs
Left
Lilly
Enough
Note
Suicide
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