Editor's Desk
Jon Meacham
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The opening sentence of Mary Carmichael's cover story this week is one of the more chilling I can remember: 'Max Blake was 7 the first time he tried to kill himself.' So begins Mary's compelling, up-close look at the Blake family and their struggle to care for their young bipolar son.

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