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We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.

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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
Reality
Anything
Fantasies
Fantasy
Sex
Perfect

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