Awash in antidepressants, America is manipulated by Big Pharma and numbed out to basic, and inevitable, human pain -- or so argue critics of our serotonin nation.

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Across the country, those in the death-care business are finding that wagging tails and ringing tags can be a source of comfort for grieving clients. People loosen up, talk about their own pets. A four-legged package of unconditional love can bring a pack of suits and dresses to its knees.

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The cure for holiday sentimentality is to listen to an old friend telling you in a deep mournful voice how desolate his life feels to him right now with the air full of sugar and spice and musical bonhomie and him stranded on an iceberg, feeling unloved, wanting to run away and start over somewhere else, and what did I think he should do?

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