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As long as I'm facing the right direction, it doesn't matter the size of my steps.

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Feminist
Novelist
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New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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writers do not choose their subjects their subjects choose them.
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