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It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it.

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Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
Author
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Nesconset
New York
Jodi Lynn Picoult
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Vanishing
Believe
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People
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Lying

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