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After a certain point, a heart with so many stress fractures can never be anything but broken.

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Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
Author
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Nesconset
New York
Jodi Lynn Picoult
Stress
Broken
Point
Certain
Anything
Many
Heart
Fractures
Never
Fracture

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