I was twelve years old in 1974, when I first saw a paperback copy of “Jaws.” On the front cover a great white shark rose from the depths toward a naked woman swimming on the surface. And there, together, were my two greatest fears: sharks and naked women. My fear of naked women was complicated—it…
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