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Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.

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Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
Author
Novelist
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Nesconset
New York
Jodi Lynn Picoult
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Occasionally
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Wrong
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Else
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