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The security officer smiled and said, ‘Good afternoon, ma’am,’ to me before I gave him ID.” “It’s a sick world, Eve.” He resisted taking her hand for another squeeze. “A sick, sad world.

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Nora Roberts
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 10
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Silver Spring
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Eleanor Marie Robertson
Jill March
Eleanor Marie Robertson Aufdem-Brinke Wilder
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