Hello listeners. This weeks tune is about Margaret Mary Ray, (nicknamed Peggy), who suffered from schizophrenia, stalked David Letterman for a long while and then an astronaut named Story Musgrave, and died by suicide, kneeling down with her head on a railway track. Tragic, horrible story, I read, (and can see), that the pain of mental illness isn't entirely wrapped up in the illness itself but is heightened in lucid moments, when you see no way out, when you can see the damage that you're doing, or the state that you're in more clearly. That's what got me about this story, that her suicide was all about clarity, so horrible, so bloody sad. Anyways, definitely worth a song, mental health is a serious thing.
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