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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?

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
Life
Spending
Ways
Looking
Point
Someone
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Always

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