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love wasn't the soft, silky words the poets spoke of. Love,with it's twin edges, was the one factor that weakened so many women, that pushed them to compromised their own wants, their own needs for the needs and wants of another.

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