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Crazy girls did this, girls who walked like zombies through YA novels. But. Trixie felt the sting of the skin as it split, the sweet welling rise of blood. It hurt, though not as much as everything else idd.

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Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
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