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    Commentary: Suicide in the news: Inescapable reminders of deaths in the family

    by Kerry Madden-Lunsford, Los Angeles Times Jun 13, 2018 4 minutes

    The news of Kate Spade's suicide and now, in the same tragic week, Anthony Bourdain's, made me think of Jeanne and Michael again, which is what always happens.

    I was 14 when my mother's sister, my Aunt Jeanne, walked into the ocean in West Palm Beach and drowned, presumably on purpose. She didn't leave a note. The day before, her ex-husband, Benny, had brought his new fiancee, Lila, to meet her. The next morning, Jeanne was found dead on the beach not far from the motel she ran called "C'est La Vie by the Sea." She was 47,

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