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I make lots of mistakes. I try hard not to make the same mistake more than three or four times.

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Janet Evanovich
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: April 22
Novelist
Writer
South River
New Jersey
Steffie Hall
Mistake
Four
Times
Three
Hard
Trying
Make
Lots
Mistakes

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