Alison Bechdel quote: Four years after my father's death, when the subject of parents came up in conversation i would relate the information ...

Four years after my father's death, when the subject of parents came up in conversation i would relate the information in a flat, matter-of-fact tone eager to detect in my listener the flinch of grief that eluded me.

~ Alison Bechdel ~

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