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Dinner's in one hour. If you're not back, sitting at the table, I'll beat you all unconscious with a spatula.

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Nora Roberts
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 10
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Businessperson
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Science Fiction Writer
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Silver Spring
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Eleanor Marie Robertson
Jill March
Eleanor Marie Robertson Aufdem-Brinke Wilder
J. D. Robb
Sarah Hardesty
Eleanor Wilder
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