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Nancy Drew was always changing her outfits. I despised girls' clothing, I couldn't wait to get home from school and get out of it. The last thing I wanted to read was minute descriptions of Nancy's frocks.

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Alison Bechdel
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 10
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
Novelist
Writer
Lock Haven
Pennsylvania
Alison J. Bechdel
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Read
Changing
Outfits
Girl
Wait
Nancy
School
Girls
Drew
Home
Couldn
Despised
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Clothings
Thing
Waiting
Clothing
Always
Lasts
Description
Frocks

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