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JUST AROUND THE BEND

rom the moment he began seeing doctors, former actor and current storyteller Don Cummings understood his medical team. “They had two goals,” recalls Cummings, who many might remember from his time playing the gay waiter on . “The first was to diagnose whether or not I had Peyronie’s disease. They get you erect by injecting your penis with a drug and handing you pornography—old-timey, a magazine. They do,

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