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Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.

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
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Generation
Generations
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Scarring
Coming
Bearable
Age
Afterward
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Ceremony
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Ritual
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Divorce

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