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If you want something to be true badly enough, you can rewrite it that way, in your head. You can even start to believe it.

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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
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Start
True
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Even
Something
Believe
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Badly

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