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Kids think with their brains cracked wide open becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.

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Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
Author
Novelist
Writer
Nesconset
New York
Jodi Lynn Picoult
Thinking
Wide
Adults
Sewing
Decided
Disillusionment
Becoming
Cracked
Open
Brains
Brain
Adult
Kids
Shut
Think
Slow

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