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Men are boys in bigger packages.

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Nora Roberts
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 10
Author
Businessperson
Legal Secretary
Novelist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Silver Spring
Maryland
Eleanor Marie Robertson
Jill March
Eleanor Marie Robertson Aufdem-Brinke Wilder
J. D. Robb
Sarah Hardesty
Eleanor Wilder
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If that isn't typical male stupidity! If something doesn't work, kick it or swear at it!
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