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ing with his bipolar disorder. She completed the novel after he took his own life at the age of 25 in 2006.
• Though Dickens found a publisher in Iceland to release the book in 2007, she still wanted a broader reach. The Espresso Book Machine at Politics and Prose in the District of Columbia enabled her to bring the memoir to local bookshelves and beyond earlier this year.
• Her book has since become the best-selling, self-published title at the local bookstore and its website.

• "I didn't expect to sell any at all," Dickens said. "I didn't want to be a best-seller. It's really about getting my son's story out there and helping other people."
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• LAPORTE, Colo. (AP) -- An eerie orange dusk shrouded part of northern Colorado, while heavy smoke choked a small community in southern New Mexico -- as both regions battled wildfires spreading rapidly through mountainous forest land that have forced hundreds of evacuations and destroyed dozens of structures.
• The Colorado fire, burning in a mountainous area about 15 miles west of Fort Collins, grew to more than 31 square miles within about a day of being reported and has destroyed or damaged 18 structures.
• The fire on Sunday sent up heavy smoke, obscuring the sun in the middle of the

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