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I probably read Harriet the Spy about 70,000 times.

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Alison Bechdel
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 10
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
Novelist
Writer
Lock Haven
Pennsylvania
Alison J. Bechdel
Harriet
Spy
Probably
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