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Laughing Matters: Pandemic Diaries from Castro Street 2021-2022
Laughing Matters: Pandemic Diaries from Castro Street 2021-2022
Laughing Matters: Pandemic Diaries from Castro Street 2021-2022
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Laughing Matters is the second installment of Mark Abramson’s funny, poignant, sexy, entertaining, and sometimes sobering journal from the Covid years of the early 2020s. You’ll laugh and cry along with him as he recollects his life over the 40 some years he has lived in San Francisco’s gay Castro neighborhood.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherMark Abramson
Release dateOct 2, 2023
ISBN9798215389669
Laughing Matters: Pandemic Diaries from Castro Street 2021-2022
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Mark Abramson

Mark Abramson is the author of the best-selling Beach Reading mystery series published by Lethe Press. He has also written the non-fiction books "For My Brothers," an AIDS Memoir, and "Sex, Drugs & Disco - San Francisco Diaries from the pre-AIDS Era" and its sequel, "MORE Sex, Drugs & Disco." His next book "Minnesota Boy" is a memoir about his coming out years while in college in Minneapolis.

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