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The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.

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Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
Author
Novelist
Writer
Nesconset
New York
Jodi Lynn Picoult
Capacity
Ever
Firsts
Bamboo
Human
Glance
Humans
Glances
First
Flexibility
Believe
Flexible
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Burden

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