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Joan Wickersham

Breaking suicide’s silence

By Joan Wickersham
September 21, 2009

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Suicide was out there - I knew it existed - but it had nothing to do with me or with anyone I was close to. Then one morning in February 1991, my father went into his study, closed the door, and shot himself. (Full article: 730 words)

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