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I learn from my own daughter that you don’t have to be awake to cry.

Jodi Picoult

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Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
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Nesconset
New York
Jodi Lynn Picoult
Empathy
Awake
Cry
Daughter
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