Dr. Seuss's wife, Helen Palmer, was suffering from cancer, all the while Seuss was having an affair with their close friend Audrey Geisel. Because of this, Palmer committed suicide in 1967, and a year later, Suess married Geisel. The following is Palmer's suicide note:
"Dear Ted (Dr. Seuss's real name was Theodore), what has happened to us? I don't know. I feel myself in a spiral, going down down down, into a black hole from which there is no escape, no brightness. And loud in my ears from every side I hear 'failure, failure, failure...' I love you so much... I am too old and enmeshed in everything you do and are, that I cannot conceive of life without you... My going will leave quite a rumor but you can say I was overworked and overwrought. Your reputation with your friends and fans will not be harmed... Sometimes I think of all the fun we had thru the years..."
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