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There's an oatmeal cookie in there. I see no reason for the existence of oatmeal, particularly in cookies.

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Nora Roberts
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 10
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Eleanor Marie Robertson
Jill March
Eleanor Marie Robertson Aufdem-Brinke Wilder
J. D. Robb
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