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I also had nightmares. Somehow all the feelings I didn't feel when each thing had actually happened to me I did feel when I slept.

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Andrea Dworkin
Age: 58 †
Born: 1946
Born: September 26
Died: 2005
Died: April 9
Essayist
Feminist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Writer
Camden
New Jersey
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