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I've become more conservative about sex as I've gotten older.

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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
Sex
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Gotten
Conservative
Older

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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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