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I can do a book in three months if I spend all day, seven days a week at it and, in fact, I work better that way.

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Barbara Mertz
Age: 85 †
Born: 1927
Born: September 29
Died: 2013
Died: August 8
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Elizabeth Peters
Barbara Michaels
Barbara Louise Mertz
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