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He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable

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Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
Author
Novelist
Writer
Nesconset
New York
Jodi Lynn Picoult
Love
Realizing
Seventeen
Year
Smiles
Inspirational
Suddenly
Doesn
Rules
Nothing
Follow
Much
Understood
Something
Realize
Years
Worth
Unattainable

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