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If there was ever a bigger pansy than my father, it was Marcel Proust.

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Alison Bechdel
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 10
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
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Lock Haven
Pennsylvania
Alison J. Bechdel
Proust
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