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Music became his refuge and his language, but tragedy struck early: the death of his beloved brother Jack left a wound that never truly healed, deepening the shadows that later colored his songs.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-4\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1861172\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Those shadows followed him into fame. From Sun Records to \u201cI Walk the Line,\u201d Cash rose as a voice for the broken, even as addiction dragged him toward self-destruction. Arrests, pills, and loneliness nearly silenced him, until June Carter stepped in as both anchor and mirror, refusing to let him disappear. Their love story, forged through struggle and redemption, carried him to prison stages, television screens, and finally to late-life confessions with Rick Rubin\u2014raw, stripped, unafraid of death. 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