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Wurtzel penned a reflection on her diagnosis for theGuardianin 2018,writing, Im not sorry about anything.

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I was never sorry when I said I was.

Apologies are a courtesy.

In 2013 she wrote a personalessayforNew YorkMagazine, another profound reckoning with her past.

Instead, I made a career out of my emotions.

And now I am just quarreling with normal.

I was a miracle, she writes, I was unlikely.

I came from out of nowhere.

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