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Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
Author
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
Totally
System
Adhering
Insisted

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