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I love to imagine inside the head of a woman.

Jay McInerney

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Jay McInerney
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 13
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Hartford
Connecticut
Head
Imagine
Woman
Love
Inside

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