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Janet Evanovich
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: April 22
Novelist
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South River
New Jersey
Steffie Hall
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Stop the planet. I want to get off.
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It's not the pizza, darlin', its my masculine presence. Joe Morelli
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You don't even need to go to college no more because you could learn how to do everything on YouTube.
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I stuck my tongue out at him because I was feeling exceptionall mature.
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I really wouldn't classify the books as mysteries. I prefer to say that they're adventures.
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I'm done with men. I have a hamster. That's all I need.
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I shot that sucker right in the gumpy. Grandma Mazur
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I mostly eat peanut butter sandwiches. Peanut butter and banana, peanut butter and jelly, peanut butter and potato chips, peanut butter and olives, and peanut butter and marshmallow goo. So sue me, I like peanut butter.
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I almost never shoot people.
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I was waiting for my body receipt when Morelli walked in. He nodded to Ranger and grinned at me in my whiteness. “I was at my desk, and Mickey told me I had to come out to take a look,” Morelli said. “It’s floor,” I told him. “I can see that. If we add some milk and eggs, we can turn you into a cake.
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I received rejection letters for ten years (one on a napkin, written in crayon.) I had all my rejection notices stored in a box. When the box was finally full I took it to the curb and set it on fire. The next day I went out and got a temp job.
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Give me the gun. Ranger said. I extracted the gun from my pants and handed it over. Ranger held the gun in the pulm of his hand and smiled. It's warm, he said. He put the gun in the glove compartment and plugged the key into the ignition. Am I fired? No. Any women who can heat up a gun like that is worth keeping around.
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The note wasn't signed, but I could tell it was from Morelli by the way my nipples got hard.
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Only men you can count on these days are Ben and Jerry.
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