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    It Is Best to Die in Your Sleep
    It Is Best to Die in Your Sleep
    It Is Best to Die in Your Sleep
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    It Is Best to Die in Your Sleep

    By Michael Congdon

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    It Is Best to Die in Your Sleep is a humorous vivid pastiche about the author, Michael Congdon. Learn about a brief moment in time when he was a five year old and allowed to decorate a cake, or his awkward teen years before coming out as a gay, when he was miserable and yet mysteriously bored with the mundane activities that a queer whi

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMichael Congdon
    Release dateNov 9, 2020
    ISBN9781735753614
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