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One of them is already having some menopausal symptoms. I'm working on that. I'm giving them all little lines under the eyes, trying to sort of make them age gracefully.

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Published on: January 20, 2025 12:51 AM

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I get a lot of mail from men who really identify with Stuart, you know, Sparrow's boyfriend. I love that. Even though I used to say I wanted men to read the strip even though there weren't any men in it, so they'd be forced to identify with the women.

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Published on: January 15, 2025 05:34 AM

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It's definitely part of it, that the men were having fun and doing the interesting things but also, I don't know, I'm just thinking more about gender and how maybe in some way I am more of a boy than a girl.

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Published on: January 1, 2025 09:53 AM

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Nancy Drew was always changing her outfits. I despised girls' clothing, I couldn't wait to get home from school and get out of it. The last thing I wanted to read was minute descriptions of Nancy's frocks.

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Published on: December 18, 2024 01:39 PM

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Mostly it was Mad magazine. And I did read a lot of - I had a subscription when I was little, but I also had access to some old collections, the little paperbacks of the really good stuff.

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Published on: December 14, 2024 06:27 PM

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Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl.

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Published on: November 28, 2024 11:00 PM

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When I grew up, I studied karate for years. I got pretty strong, but eventually I had to acknowledge that I really didn't like fighting at all, so I quit.

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Published on: November 11, 2024 03:24 AM

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I don't know, maybe it's because I was raised Catholic. Confession has always held a great appeal for me.

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Published on: October 29, 2024 01:36 PM

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My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where I grew up.

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Published on: October 18, 2024 07:17 PM

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People really want to think that these things really happened. I don't know why that important, but I know that when I finish reading a novel or something, I want to know how much of that really happened to this author.

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Published on: September 30, 2024 12:19 PM

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That's all true, but there was something else going on for me as a kid, something about my gender identity that I haven't figured out yet. And that's one of the things I'm hoping to dissect and investigate in this memoir project.

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Published on: September 11, 2024 09:27 AM

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