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Vampires are total sexual metaphors there's just no way around that.

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Alan Ball
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 13
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I really love storytelling, and I love the stories as they reveal themselves. It's an incredibly nourishing process it's probably the closest I come to having a religion.
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I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.
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And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort of philosophy that really made a tremendous amount of sense. What I liked that was missing from my experience of Christianity growing up was a sort of acceptance, a sort of being OK with being imperfect and not focusing on the sin.
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