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How could one create life with someone who represented death?

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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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Death
Someone
Life

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Being a daughter is only half the equation bearing one is the other.
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