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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
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Lock Haven
Pennsylvania
Alison J. Bechdel
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She has given me a way out.
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Even drawing gray hair at all is difficult to render in black and white.
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