Eventually I lost everything and ended up living in a cardboard box near skid row in L.A., shunned and a goner.

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"I lost everything because of the schizophrenia, " he says.

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"I lost everything, " she says.

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I've lost my home and everything is finished now.

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Ten years ago, had I found myself without a computer everything would have been lost forever.

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Mr. WINTER: Oh, I had many friends, particularly on the Gulf Coast who are devastated, who lost everything.

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