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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.

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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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