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Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies?

Alison Bechdel

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Alison Bechdel
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 10
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
Novelist
Writer
Lock Haven
Pennsylvania
Alison J. Bechdel
Undertaker
Dies

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I’m glad mainstream culture is starting to catch up to where lesbian-feminism was 30 years ago.
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It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!
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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.
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