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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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Some romantic you are, Caine complained as he pushed the door open with his back.Whatever happened to women who liked to be swept off their feet? They got dropped, Diana said flatly.
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