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If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my body.

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
Mind
Never
Reckon
Forced
Weren
Desires
Desire
Body
Might

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