Julia Gets Wise with Amy Tan
Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus
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The Dangers of Suicide in the Family
There was a lot of actually suicide in my family. My grandfather died by suicide and my grandmother really talked about it like as if he had a heart problem. She overdosed on raw opium, deliberately took raw opium and swallowed it in a New Year's rice cake. Later she said it was in, she didn't mean to kill herself. I could feel that in me at times this sense it was overwhelming where I just felt like I needed to escape.
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