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Writers tend to be addicted to houses ... We work at home, indulging the agoraphobia endemic to our kind. We are immersed in our surroundings to an almost morbid degree.

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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
Writers
Immersed
Almost
Morbid
House
Addicted
Home
Surroundings
Work
Houses
Kind
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Agoraphobia
Tend
Endemic
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Indulging

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