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I grew to resent the way my father treated his furniture like children, and his children like furniture.

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Alison Bechdel
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 10
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
Novelist
Writer
Lock Haven
Pennsylvania
Alison J. Bechdel
Grew
Father
Children
Way
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Resent
Furniture
Treated

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