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Flares from a Fallout Shelter
In the fall of 1990, writer-journalist Lynette Ingram’s nineteen-year old son grew angry, belligerent, and preoccupied with suicide. In her quest to find psychiatric help for him, she was forced to confront the long-held secret she believed she had outrun. Twenty years earlier, and also at age nineteen, the writer had tried to kill herself.