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Whitney’s mother asked her daughter with feelings of trepidation and devotion: “How many lives do you think you have? You’re not a cat.” Whitney, whose last name is withheld, just survived her eighth overdose; the proverb of a cat’s nine lives. She under- stood she may not survive another — there may not be a next time.

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