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So much of the language of love was like that: you devoured someone with your eyes, you drank in the sight of him, you swallowed him whole. Love was substance, broken down and beating through your bloodstream.

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Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
Author
Novelist
Writer
Nesconset
New York
Jodi Lynn Picoult
Someone
Drank
Whole
Beating
Much
Substance
Love
Sight
Bloodstream
Like
Broken
Possessiveness
Eyes
Devoured
Eye
Swallowed
Language
Adoration

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