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What if the one I choose to discount is one who has been truly hurt?

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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
Discounts
Truly
Choose
Hurt
Discount

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