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Relationships always sounded so physically painful: you fell in love, you broke a heart, you lost your head. Was it any wonder that people came through the experience with battle scars?

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Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
Author
Novelist
Writer
Nesconset
New York
Jodi Lynn Picoult
Experience
Fell
Lost
Broke
Heart
Relationships
Always
Painful
Love
Battle
Scars
People
Head
Sounded
Wonder
Scar
Came
Physically

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