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The Velvet Underground Pt I

No Dogs in Space

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Lou Reed's Life Story

There definitely wasn't a term for it in the 1950s Long Island suburbs God no like remember this is back in the day when homosexuality was completely taboo at least not out in the open. Lou never had a steady girlfriend like he would often go out with girls who supposedly had bad reputations or what flusies or whatever the term was at the time and then Lou would discard them as quickly lose women yeah fluYeah I dated my fair share of fluzy okay I married a floozy okay moving on all right so Lou even told his friends at the time  I like girls with black hearts so he was a bad boy who like badBadLou Reed's life story during his teenage

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