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I thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of the bathtub plug a man?

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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
Sure
Bathtub
Woman
Bathtubs
Thought
Plug
Men
Plugs
Nameless
Inventor
Invention
Somehow

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