That said, I think my mother's essay begs the question: What kind of mother was Erica Jong?

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So I think what I did, it was kind of combine - my mother had bleached my hair carrot red at one point, and then I said, well, maybe that's not flamboyant enough.

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My husband inadvertently compounded my discomfort each Mother's Day by asking me what kind of gift I wanted.

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They kind of migrated to that one building, and my mother's family - they came from a town called Cimina in Sicily, and they migrated to 232.

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My mother was a proud public schoolteacher, as are my two brothers -- the kind of teachers whom students remember for the rest of their lives.

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