Sex and Death to the Age 14

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Sex and Death to the Age 14

1982

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Monologue created and performed by Spalding Gray, who takes us through his childhood recollections of growing up in a Christian Science household in Barrington, Rhode Island, in the 1950s.

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Spalding Gray

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