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There's no reward without work, no victory without effort, no battle won without risk.

Nora Roberts

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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
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Eleanor Marie Robertson Aufdem-Brinke Wilder
J. D. Robb
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Hey. Hands off.” , “Please. Please, please, soooo pretty. Lemme just have one little touch.” “Peabody, isn’t it embarrassing enough you’re wearing pink cowboy boots, again, without standing here drooling on my coat?”, [J.D. Robb, Celebrity In Death]
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Up to this point your life has pretty much sucked. You’re not responsible for that. But you are responsible for what happens from here on.
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