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"Sinatra was just one of Mom's friends."
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"Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste."

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"Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic."

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"My mother's suicide attempts were a way to release anxiety and get attention. Some of the attempts were drug reactions she didn't even remember later on."
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