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Sometimes people do you a favour when they drop out of your life.

Alan Cumming

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Alan Cumming
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: January 27
Actor
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Lgbtiq+ Rights Activist
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So the experts think we could have an AIDS-free generation in Africa by 2015, even if the mothers are positive.
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Finally, the scariest thing about abuse of any shape or form, is, in my opinion, not the abuse itself, but that if it continues it can begin to feel commonplace and eventually acceptable.
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