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Beach Boys legend Brian Wilson is mourning the death of his wife, Melinda. “My heart is broken. Melinda, my beloved wife of 28 years, passed away this morning,” Wilson wrote to X (formerly Twitter). “Our five children and I are just in tears. We are lost. Melinda was more than my wife. She was my savior. She gave me the emotional security I needed to have a career.” Melinda Ledbetter met Wilson in 1986 while she was working at a car dealership. At the time, the Beach Boys star was suffering through one of the most difficult stages of his life. Wilson had gone through years of drug rehabilitati…