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He wanted to heave the glasses against the wall. Break them, break everything he could reach. Beat it, rend it. He stared out the window, imagined the city in flames, consumed to ashes. And still it wasn't enough.

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Nora Roberts
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 10
Author
Businessperson
Legal Secretary
Novelist
Philanthropist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Silver Spring
Maryland
Eleanor Marie Robertson
Jill March
Eleanor Marie Robertson Aufdem-Brinke Wilder
J. D. Robb
Sarah Hardesty
Eleanor Wilder
Still
Window
Stared
Wanted
Reach
Consumed
Everything
City
Ashes
Enough
Wall
Imagined
Cities
Flames
Wasn
Glasses
Break
Beat
Heave
Stills
Beats
Rend

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