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152 Method. Long summers ago I picked up my son at a friend’s house and noticed black smoke pouring from the second-story windows of the house down the street. A middle-aged woman, living only with her cat after a divorce, had doused her bed with kerosene and set herself alight. The firefighters rescued the cat, but it was too late to save the woman, whom they found in the bathtub. The firefighters speculated that she was trying to put out the fire, which was herself. She may have had second thoughts, or was unprepared for the pain. See Gun. ...

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