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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.

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
Loneliness
Marriage
Dead
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