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Teenagers used it for venting tweets. Poets set their suicide notes in it—and then, miraculously, their recovery poems. A small press in Minneapolis printed an entire anthology called The Unlovable Verses , featuring Lena’s font on the cover. Reviewers called it “the voice of the hollowed generation.”