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I've never been a partisan, I've never been a Republican, I've never been a Democrat, ever, which is why I was very frustrated being called a gay Republican when I never attached myself to that.
Andrew Sullivan
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Andrew Sullivan
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: August 10
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