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A heroin-thin boy with enough rings in his eyebrows to resemble a shower curtain rod.

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Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
Author
Novelist
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Nesconset
New York
Jodi Lynn Picoult
Boys
Curtain
Enough
Heroin
Shower
Curtains
Eyebrows
Showers
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Rings
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