—emmittthenervend
“Dr. Seuss’s first spouse, Helen Palmer, left him a suicide notice after overdosing on barbiturates that’s totally heartbreaking: ‘Expensive Ted, What has occurred to us? I do not know. I really feel myself in a spiral, taking place down down, right into a black gap from which there isn’t any escape, no brightness. And loud in my ears from each facet I hear, ‘failure, failure, failure…’ I really like you a lot…I’m too previous and enmeshed in all the things you do and are, that I can not conceive of life with out you… My going will go away fairly a rumor, however you may say I used to be overworked and overwrought. Your status with your pals and followers won’t be harmed… Generally, consider the enjoyable we had all by means of the years…’ Simply eight months after she killed herself, he married his mistress.”
—thegreatgaspie
