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Happy Friday!

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Ben Dreyfuss
May 06, 2022
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Today is May 6th, 2022, which means today is the 80th birthday of Argentine playwright Ariel Dorfman.

One of Dorfman’s most famous works is a play called Death and the Maiden, which my dad starred in on Broadway. I’[ve mentioned this before in a post last Thanksgiving and since I have sort of been spending a lot of time on this new podcast the last few w…

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