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I don't want to be expected to fall in passively someone else's plans for me. That's what I don't want. I don't want it assumed that I simply don't have any personal goals or wishes of my own. Or any basic competence of my own. That's what I don't want!

Nora Roberts

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Nora Roberts
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 10
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