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My father once nearly came to blows with a female dinner guest about whether a particular patch of embroidery was fuchsia or magenta. But the infinite gradations of color in a fine sunset - from salmon to canary to midnight blue - left him wordless.

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Alison Bechdel
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 10
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
Novelist
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Lock Haven
Pennsylvania
Alison J. Bechdel
Father
Blue
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Canary
Left
Infinite
Blows
Gradations
Female
Midnight
Canaries
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Guests
Embroidery
Fine
Sunset
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Salmon
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Dinner
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Magenta

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