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A schizophrenic's tale After 25 years lost to mental illiness, Linda Larson sees a ray of hope
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THIS IS PART 2.
The New York chapter of Larson's life was coming to a close. She
stayed in the hospital for four months. When she emerged, her weight
had ballooned to 160 pounds. Her speech was slurred -- so was her
thinking -- and she walked with a druggy, shuffling gait. Her family
sent her a one-way plane ticket to Mississippi. Larson would spend
the next 12 years there, caught in a vicious cycle of breakdown and
recovery, rebound and loss.
At first, Larson says, she blame...
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