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My mother moves so fast I do not even see it coming. But she slaps my face hard enough to make my head snap backward. She leaves a print that stains me long after it’s faded. Just so you know: shame is five-fingered.

Jodi Picoult

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Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
Author
Novelist
Writer
Nesconset
New York
Jodi Lynn Picoult
Enough
Shame
Snaps
Hard
Coming
Slap
Even
Head
Faded
Long
Five
Backward
Make
Face
Print
Fingered
Faces
Moves
Slaps
Moving
Leaves
Snap
Mother
Fast
Stains

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