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I wondered about the explorers who'd sailed their ships to the end of the world. How terrified they must have been when they risked falling over the edge how amazed to discover, instead, places they had seen only in their dreams.

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Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
Author
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Writer
Nesconset
New York
Jodi Lynn Picoult
Dream
Edges
Risked
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Explorers
World
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