The "Greats" are like that. Lincoln was that way too
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After the war ended Lincoln went on a carriage ride with Mary Todd and said "After all this perhaps we can finally learn to be happy"
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He got shot a week later, Mary Todd's mental health never recovered and his son Robert had her institutionalized
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Mary Todd Lincoln is the negative version of how out of the deluded ppl who don't understand math, one of them really will win the lottery
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And you'll never convince that one person that buying a lottery ticket actually was a bad idea
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Out of all the paranoid people with persecutory delusions, one of them really will have tremendous misery heaped on them by the world
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Mary Todd had nightmares all the time about how her whole family was gonna die and then it actually did happen
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And her husband really was taken down by a shadowy malevolent conspiracy
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Didn't help that Booth was a celebrity actor with a bad boy reputation, it's like finding out your spouse was killed by Johnny Depp
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Many years later when her sole surviving son Robert was middle aged she showed up at his house bc she'd dreamed he was going to die
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And she spent her whole time there convinced she saw assassins around every corner
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Until one night she broke her leg jumping out the window convinced the house was on fire
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At which point Robert said he was giving up, called the cops and had her put in a mental hospital
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