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Jamey: Exactly. Ralph Waldo Emerson says, “Our moods do not believe in each other.” When you’ve coped with depression, you know how enveloping it can be, and how seductively it can convince you that the darkness which it discloses is the sum total of reality. Then it passes. Andrew: Yep. Been there enough to know that. Jamey: I figured. Andrew: Go
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