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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?

Jodi Picoult

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