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I'd been upstaged, demoted from protagonist in my own drama to comic relief in my parents' tragedy

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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
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