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Accept that, like many men, you have a streak of the homoerotic in you. Why would you, why would anyone, want to be that straight?

Michael Cunningham

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Michael Cunningham
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: November 6
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
University Teacher
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Cincinnati
Ohio
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