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Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit?

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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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Taxes
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Audit

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