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We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.

Erica Jong

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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Two
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Homosexuality

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biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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