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Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.

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
Thinks
Generation
Generations
Perhaps
Lost
Right
Every
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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