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People do terrible things all the time, but we don’t regularly disown our humanity. We disavow the terrible things.

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Roxane Gay
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: October 15
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Scrabble Player
Writer
Omaha
Nebraska
Humanity
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Disavow
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