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Blogging is to writing what extreme sports are to athletics: more free-form, more accident-prone, less formal, more alive. It is, in many ways, writing out loud.
Andrew Sullivan
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Andrew Sullivan
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: August 10
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I'm gay. I always have been and I always will be, and I'm happy.
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