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I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous.

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Danielle Steel
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: August 14
Novelist
Writer
New York City
New York
Danielle Fernandes Dominique Schülein-Steel
Danielle Fernandes Dominique Schuelein-Steel
Famous
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Literature
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