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My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.

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Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
Author
Novelist
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Nesconset
New York
Jodi Lynn Picoult
Grows
Tempered
Mother
Mothering
Beautiful
Spine
Love
Steel
Like
Edges
Mom
Daughter
Grow
Softened

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