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It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair.

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Alison Bechdel
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 10
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
Novelist
Writer
Lock Haven
Pennsylvania
Alison J. Bechdel
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Hard
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Gray
Thing
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Hair
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