Great Regulars: "But I tell you all this,"

[Ted] Hughes added, "with a hope that it will let you understand a lot of things. . . . Don't laugh it off. In 1963 you were hit even harder than me. But you will have to deal with it, just as I have had to."

Nicholas Hughes, who was not married and had no children, hanged himself March 16, Alaska State Troopers said. He was a man of science, not letters, the only member of his immediate family not to become a poet.

from Hillel Italie: Associated Press: Poet Sylvia Plath's son commits suicide in Alaska

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