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I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?

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Ned Vizzini
Age: 32 †
Born: 1981
Born: April 4
Died: 2013
Died: December 19
Novelist
Writer
New York City
New York
Human
Functional
Humans
Sad
Well
Depression
Suicide
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