In 1889, after a series of crack-ups (in reaction to Theo's marriage or perhaps just too much absinthe?), he spent a year in the asylum at saint-remy-de-provence.

1889年，在经历了一连串打击后(对西奥结婚的反应，要么是喝多了苦艾酒？)，他在普罗旺斯圣雷米的精神病院待了一年。

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However, when twenty-three-year-old Sydney Provence, a University of Iowa physics grad student, picked me up in her Toyota Corolla at the airport in Cedar Rapids the first stop on my surfing odyssey I immediately confessed my misdeed.

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