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I, um, I have this problem. I broke up with my boyfriend, you see. And I'm pretty upset about it, so I wanted to talk to my best friend. [...] The thing is, they're both you.

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Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
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Nesconset
New York
Jodi Lynn Picoult
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Broke
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Pretty
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Best
Wanted
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But still, it looked completely natural, as if we had been kissing at the ends of sentences for ages, while the rest of the world was still hung up on punctuation.
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Three months ago, if you asked me, I would have told you that if you really loved someone, you’d let them go. But now I look at you, and I dreamed about Maggie, and I see that I’ve been wrong. If you really love someone, Allie, I think you have to take them back.
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I realize then that we never have children, we receive them. And sometimes it’s not for quite as long as we would have expected or hoped. But it is still far better than never having had those children at all.
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If you don't know there's an alternative, you can't miss it
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It makes Faith think of a hammock in their yard, a web of rope that she thought would unravel the first time she leaned back on it, but that managed to support her all the same.
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I wondered about the explorers who'd sailed their ships to the end of the world. How terrified they must have been when they risked falling over the edge how amazed to discover, instead, places they had seen only in their dreams.
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You okay in there? No, I'm hanging from a closet rod.
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Love was that way. You could not render it in black or white. It always came down to the strange, blended shades of grey.
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Just because fate had thrown another obstacle in my way didn't mean I had to give up my dreams.
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Sometimes all you need to live one more day is a good reason to stick around.
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I tell you this as a cautionary tale: beware of getting what you want. It's bound to disappoint you.
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Religion isn't in your DNA. you don't believe just because your parents believe.
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