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It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present.

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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
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