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Every year, 16,000 phone calls, texts and chats come into the Minnesota Warmline. This free resource is necessary for the 819,000 adults in the state who struggle with their mental health, according to Minnesota’s National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI).  That’s nine times the population of Duluth. “We all need someone to talk to sometimes,” said Teresa Steinmetz, assistant commissioner of behavioral health at the Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS). Steinmetz exp