He thought readers would be interested to know how a family copes with the trauma of suicide twice. Are you out of your damn mind? I told Don. How could I possibly write about something so painful? Why would anyone want to take advice from people stupid enough to let this happen twice? We were losers, as far as I was concerned. To lose one sibling is a tragedy, I said, paraphrasing the old Oscar Wilde quote. To lose two looks like carelessness. Besides, Danny was hardly a sympathetic character. I’m sure plenty of people remembered his role in the hate mail case and thought Danny had gotten
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