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"...the always heartbroken man living a heteronormative life who probably longed for male love...". If you're discussing a specifically sexual relationship, what gives you (or anyone) the right to wildly speculate in public about such a private, intimate matter, when there is literally not a single iota - not a shred - of evidence in all of Stevens' life that he had the slightest inclination. or proclivity towards such a preference? This sounds more like the author's desirous wish to bend Stevens' personality to fit their personal political desires.

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Thank you for reading! I am not seeing an iota, to use your locution, of evidence that the reviewer's interest here is political. Few are able to read literature without inferring some human story behind it, though we probably all find different emotions there. Anyway, we are glad to have your perspective.

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Great piece. Complicated and brilliant. Thank you for this.

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