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Medicating Thoreau, Ctd.

By The Daily Dish
Sep 17 2007, 8:42 AM ET

A reader writes:

Some parallels here with the end of gay culture, no? Take away the artist's pain, lose the art. Take away the gay kid's pain, lose our culture. I say, make 'em all suffer. Just let me have my Zoloft so I can enjoy the fruits of their anguish.

I hope that doesn't sound too selfish.



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