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I'm not sure what that includes. Maybe that includes dementia or something like that.

Maybe just election time. But even just the 20% of Americans are suffering from a severe

mental illness. It's an amazing statistic. I've written a lot about this. I've written

a lot about mental illness because it just appears a lot in my novels. I mean, novelists

are not always in control of what shows up in their novels. One thing that I sort of realized

looking backward is that this one character type of character, a young woman, usually a

beautiful young woman who is a schizophrenic, has occurred maybe three or four times in

my novels. I've maybe had three or four. I know why. It's very personal reason why that

is true. I won't talk about it here. But I do cover it in my memoir. I still don't

think you can buy it yet. But in September of my memoir, the great good thing comes out.

It does explain why crazy women keep turning up in my novels. One of the first ones was

a woman, I think her name is Elizabeth, and don't say a word. She was played by Brittany

Murphy in the movie. Everybody remembers her going, I'll never tell. It was a very strange

experience because that became kind of a meme, what it used to be called a meme, an idea

that was floating around. J. Leno was making jokes about it, and I was saying they

were, OK, I made this character up. J. Leno was making jokes, and it was very strange.

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