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Motherhood is a Sisyphean task. You finish sewing one seam shut, and another rips open. I have come to believe that this life I'm wearing will never really fit.

Jodi Picoult

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Jodi Picoult
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 19
Author
Novelist
Writer
Nesconset
New York
Jodi Lynn Picoult
Believe
Shut
Really
Wearing
Never
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Seam
Life
Tasks
Rips
Fit
Sewing
Open
Rip
Another
Motherhood
Come
Finish

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