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I think it's a Jewish Yale custom. I wasn't aware that other people celebrated Christmas. My wife was very big on Christmas, and I was very big on my wife.
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Kevin Sessums
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 1
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My father always wanted me to be president of the United States, and his fallback position was that I not become a ward of the county. I think my father was okay about my going into journalism, though.
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[ John] Winthrop was the man who first said America was a city upon a hill, which [Ronald] Reagan then appropriated. There are incidents like that all through history. We have been here.
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I was raped. That was a hard thing to write about. I never owned that part of it. Guys don't look at themselves as being raped. We're not raised that way.
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I'm not denying Christ by not being Christian. I'm a theist, which involves expanding on the Christ narrative.
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I don't think everybody's gay. But I think a lot more people are than the world knows about.
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I could appear in this million-word book [Larry Kramer] are working on. Nobody would even notice me.
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