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How Do You Serve a Friend in Despair? David Brooks on Loss

New York Times columnist David Brooks lost his lifelong friend Peter to suicide last April, three years after he was diagnosed with clinical depression. Brooks has detailed what he learned from Peter’s journey in his latest column, “How Do You Serve a Friend in Despair?” He joins Hari Sreenivasan to share some of these lessons.

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