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I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound.

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
Wound
Wounds
Deeper
Sure
Kind
Love
Salve

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