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Michael is Currently Reading

Michael is currently reading

The Drug User: Documents 1840-1960

by Strausbaugh & Blaise

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“There is a no man's land between sex and love, and it alters in the night.”
― Norman Mailer

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A book about cultural differences ... The place Bailey’s Gym, Los Angeles, California—6am—the fall of 1999… From a bourgeois neighborhood in Beirut t ...more