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TIL the song Jeremy by Pearl Jam is a real story about Jeremy Wade Delle who committed suicide in front of his class on January 8, 1991. His death wasn't more than a paragraph in local news Eddie Vedder said that he felt "the need to take that small article and to give it more importance."

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