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Before she found fame — and a billion-dollar fortune — as Harry Potter's creator, J.K. ROWLING says she contemplated suicide. She told a student journalist from Edinburgh University that as a struggling writer and single mother in her mid-20s, she suffered from depression and sought medical help.

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