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Loving our own children is an exercise for the imagination.

Andrew Solomon

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Andrew Solomon
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: October 30
Author
Clinical Psychologist
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Manhattan borough
New York City
Children
Loving
Exercise
Imagination

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Your gender identity is who you are. Sexual identity is who you bounce that off of.
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I don't believe that there is anyone of faith whose faith would not be strengthened by those experiences of family.
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