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Bierce married Mary Ellen "Mollie" Day on December 25, 1871. They had three children: sons Day (1872–1889){{Sfn | Floyd | 1999 | p = 19}} and Leigh (1874–1901){{Sfn | Floyd | 1999 | p = 19}} and daughter Helen (1875–1940). Both of Bierce's sons died before he did. Day committed suicide after a romantic rejection (he non-fatally shot the woman of his affections along with her fiancé beforehand),{{Sfn | Morris | 1999 | pp =206–08, 238}}<ref>{{cite news |title=Along the Pacific Coast |url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82014381/1889-07-27/ed-1/seq-1 |newspaper=[[The Sacramento Union|Sacramento Daily Record-Union]] |date=July 27, 1889 |page=1 |access-date=2015-12-11}}</ref> and Leigh died of [[pneumonia]] related to [[alcoholism]].{{Sfn | Floyd | 1999 | p = 19}} Bierce separated from his wife in 1888, after discovering compromising letters to her from an admirer. They divorced in 1904.{{Sfn | Floyd | 1999 | p = 19}} Mollie Day Bierce died the following year.
Bierce was an avowed [[Agnosticism|agnostic]], and strongly rejected the [[divinity of Christ]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Ambrose Bierce's Civilians and soldiers in context: a critical study|year=2004|publisher=Kent State University Press|isbn=978-0873387781|page=323|author=Donald T. Blume|chapter=The Boarded Window|quote=Contrary to McWilliams's claim; however, in the public arena Bierce was not merely an agnostic, but a staunch unbeliever regarding the question of Jesus' divinity.}}<!--|access-date=30 April 2013--></ref> He suffered from lifelong [[asthma]],{{Sfn | Floyd | 1999 |pp = 19–20}} as well as complications from his war wounds, most notably episodes of fainting and irritability assignable to the Traumatic Brain Injury suffered at Kennesaw Mountain.<ref name="online-literature.com">{{Cite web|url=http://www.online-literature.com/bierce/|title=Ambrose Bierce|publisher=The
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