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...If I don't have twenty or thirty books right here, waiting to be read, I start jonesing. That's my compulsion.
Nora Roberts
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Nora Roberts
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 10
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Don't you want me to kiss you goodbye, sweetie? Kiss a cow farm boy
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