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'Fairyland' author recalls growing up with her gay dad in pre-AIDS San Francisco

Alysia Abbott was raised by a single father at the dawn of the gay liberation era. Sofia Coppola recently adapted Abbott's memoir, Fairyland, to film. Originally broadcast in 2013.

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