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I don't know much about cars, Joyce said, but I think someone took my engine.

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Janet Evanovich
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: April 22
Novelist
Writer
South River
New Jersey
Steffie Hall
Took
Someone
Much
Think
Joyce
Thinking
Engine
Engines
Cars
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