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A Cool Letter About "Meeting" Nora

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I don't have a "cool" story to relate, because I have never been able to get to a book signing. However, this has to be my year! I keep all of Nora's books and do not donate them to the library in Mammoth, which receives all of the other books I read inbetween the glory of finding a new Roberts book. Fortunately for me, and for all of us, Ms. Roberts is prolific.
I have written three or four reviews of her books for Barnes and Nobles (on the internet) and have only read one I did not like: DIVINE EVIL. The others are kept for a re-read, or what I like to call, "revisiting my friends".
I am a teacher first and foremost. I love my classroom of little 7th grade squigglers. However, late at night and inbetween, I write sketches of people I meet and see. Sometimes, they come together in a story. And yet, in all of my reading, I have never 'met' a more talented lady than Nora Roberts.
I have been to a prestigious graduate school. I am a well respected member of the educational community. I am also sick of bad news, horror and depressing news events that I analyze in the realm of rhetoric until I am exhausted. When nothing else works, Nora Roberts is bound to cure 'zee blues' or even Truman Capote's 'mean reds'. So, have I 'met' Nora Roberts? Of course I have met her in every book she has written. I am a strong believer that most of her heroines - although ostensibly quite different in personality - all represent another facet of Nora Roberts. I wonder if I am correct in this assumption....hmnnnn...
For example, in BORN IN ICE, we have a cookie-baking, shy but adorable home-maker who has sisters (one half sister) of different personalities. I think they are all Nora Roberts. Ms. Roberts is a businesswoman (Born in shame); she is a devoted mother and cookie baker (BORN IN ICE) and maybe a hard-core artist (writer) as is our Mary-Margaret. And maybe, just maybe, all three of the heroes who meet up with these alter-egos, are wrapped up in the bookstore-owner-husband who 'built' his way into her heart. Maybe I'm wrong, but I believe in love stories, happy magic and Nora Roberts. If she comes to Los Angeles again, you can be sure I'll ditch work and be there. However, truly, every time any of us opens a Roberts book, we're meeting her.
As she would say and I now always say,

Blessed be....
Adria

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