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Then they scrambled through the window and into the darkness, determined to turn themselves into what they were not.

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Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
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Novelist
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Nesconset
New York
Jodi Lynn Picoult
Scrambled
Determined
Window
Darkness
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