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That's why I tried to kill myself when I was a student [in Yale]. I thought I was the only one there.

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Kevin Sessums
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 1
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Mississippi
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Kevin Howard Scott Sessums
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Yale
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I have never heard that referred to before, that term: Jewish men from Yale.
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[ John] Winthrop was the man who first said America was a city upon a hill, which [Ronald] Reagan then appropriated. There are incidents like that all through history. We have been here.
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Calvin [Trillin] has never done anything majorly objectionable.
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