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Although I am good at enumerating my father’s flaws, it’s hard for me to sustain much anger at him. I expect this is partly because he’s dead, and partly because the bar is lower for fathers than it is for mothers.
Alison Bechdel
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Alison Bechdel
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 10
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Lock Haven
Pennsylvania
Alison J. Bechdel
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