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  This is serious. My wife died 05/25/08 from a number of physical problems including asthma and obesity – she couldn’t breathe.  We celebrated our 8^th anniversary on 05/23/08.  But I’m writing because when Debra died I lost my wife, a five year old daughter and over 100 friends. Debra was raped by her father, for the first time, when she was an infant.  He continued to sexually abuse her until she was in college.  She developed Disociative Identity Disorder in order to deal with the nightmare of her life. This is ugly.  Getting a laugh from the tragedy that creates DID is cruel.  This show has the sensitivity of an Auschwitz Secret Service doctor.

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