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Most sex doesn't really bring people together. You have to reach a certain level of connection, I think, and that's pretty rare.

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