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I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitting my face into the curve of his shoulder and filling my lungs with the scent of him.

Jodi Picoult

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Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
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Novelist
Writer
Nesconset
New York
Jodi Lynn Picoult
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Absence
Curve
Nothing
Distance
Fitting
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Embrace
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Like
Close
Lungs
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Scent
Eyes
Shoulder
Face
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Shoulders

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