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259 Young manhood. Years of feeling. Living was not yet done with him, and he was not done with living. His life and letters were messy with cries and witticisms and excoriations. But this paradoxical letter, written in the bad month October 1974, was very brief and neat: Dear Richard, I hate everything. Love, Joel He typed the letter—except his name, signed in red ink. ...

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