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Yeah, I read Judy Blume. My mother didn't like that, but I read it anyhow.

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Alison Bechdel
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 10
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
Novelist
Writer
Lock Haven
Pennsylvania
Alison J. Bechdel
Didn
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Blume
Judy
Anyhow
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Mother

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