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  1.                                                                                 MILESTONES, Page 55
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  4.     DIED. Jerzy Kosinski, 57, brooding Polish-born author of The
  5. Painted Bird, Steps and Being There; by his own hand; in New
  6. York City. His wife Katherina said he had recently grown
  7. despondent over a worsening heart condition. In his writing,
  8. Kosinski explored themes drawn from his hellish childhood as a
  9. Jew in Nazi-occupied Poland and its reverberations in his adult
  10. life.
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