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All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.

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Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
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Novelist
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Nesconset
New York
Jodi Lynn Picoult
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Counted
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Someone
Wanted
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