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

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Feminist
Novelist
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New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook.
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I think the Jews are an amazing group of people and their survival is amazing.
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