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I never really read superhero stuff as a kid.

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
Never
Superhero
Read
Stuff
Kids
Really

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