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# The Crooked Tree, a Story of Staying Strange
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/the-crooked-tree-a-story-of-staying-strange/
- Published: 2016-10-24T11:00:35.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:47:25.000Z
- Description: My kids are starting to notice I'm a little different from the other dads.
- Author: Lauren Purje
- Tags: Comics, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:23 (2016, 2017, part 2)

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