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Once she was famous, Irving devoted himself to supporting and helping her. After the '60s, her last four years were spent glamorously and productively. When she was diagnosed with breast cancer for the second time on January 11th of '73, she was determined to finish her last novel, Once Is Not Enough. Like her other books, it too was a roaring success, but she couldn't enjoy it because she was so sick and drained by the chemotherapy. Still, in her last days she told a friend that "every day of the last ten years for me was a blessing," suggesting that she'd lived hard and successfully to get the most out of every moment, knowing she didn't have a long life ahead of her. She may have attempted suicide by trying to leap from her terrace; supposedly Irving handcuffed himself to her to keep her from further attempts. When she finally went to the hospital for the last time, she refused to die and stayed in a coma for seven weeks before finally succumbing on September 21, 1974. Her last words to Irving were, "Let's get the hell outta here, doll."
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