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It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!

Alison Bechdel

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Alison Bechdel
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 10
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
Novelist
Writer
Lock Haven
Pennsylvania
Alison J. Bechdel
Capacity
Consciousness
Makes
Self
Destructive

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