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A wet dream in the mind of New York.

Erica Jong

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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
California
York
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Mind
Wet

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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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