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People really want to think that these things really happened. I don't know why that is important, but I know that when I finish reading a novel or something, I want to know how much of that really happened to this author.

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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