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We get on the bandwagon in all sorts of ways - you know minor ways and major ways - like what you've just encountered which isn't censorship exactly, it was something sort of uglier in a way.
Kathy Acker
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Kathy Acker
Age: 53 †
Born: 1944
Born: April 18
Died: 1997
Died: November 30
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